A campaign to encourage gamete donation

Two little girls in their bath putting suds everywhere. Another who jumps on her parents' bed. A toddler who ravages the family kitchen, and puts his cuddly toy in the pan. All under the gaze of their visibly exhausted parents... “Give your gametes, you will make people happy”, proclaim the posters of the new campaign of the Biomedicine Agency to encourage the donation of gametes, in order to cope to the influx of requests for medically assisted procreation (AMP).

It is through humor that the campaign

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The stock of 89,000 sperm straws available at the end of March 2023 will not be enough, because a large part will soon have to be destroyed: from the end of March 2025, only those from donors who have consented to access to their data will be able to be used. The stock of usable straws, “estimated at 26,000 sperm straws at the end of March 2023, must increase rapidly in order to be able to meet the growing demands for ART care,” indicates the Biomedicine Agency.

The campaign, which started on Wednesday and will continue until the end of the year, will be particularly visible in cities that have a gamete donation center. Videos will be broadcast on social media, catch-up television services and in cinemas. Posters will also be distributed in the press, in medical practices and universities. Last year, 990 women and 764 men applied to donate eggs or sperm. Any healthy person aged 18 to 37 for women, and up to 44 for men, can donate their gametes, recalls the Biomedicine Agency. Who insists: “Donating your gametes is not having a child. It’s about being parents.”