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How Ukraine surpassed American Reproductology

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According to the World Health Organization, 21% of couples of reproductive age suffers from infertility in the world. IVF using donor eggs is the only chance to become a mother for many women with gynecological pathology or genetic abnormalities.

Egg donation is prohibited in many European countries. And in accordance with the laws of some European countries, such a procedure cannot be anonymous, which vastly decreases the number of potential donors. Due to these reasons, many foreigners choose Ukraine. According to a survey conducted at the largest web-portal about pregnancy and conception planning, 45% of Ukrainian women agree to donate eggs. Also, 26% could not give the exact answer saying that it all depends on the specified proposition.

These days there is a tendency in the US and in Europe for women to become mothers who only recently were considered too old for this mission. Today they are often to give birth to the first-born at 30, 40 or even at over 40 years old. Accordingly, the demand for egg donation is increasing because getting pregnant with your own egg cells at 40 is almost impossible. There is a real donor eggs boom in the US and Ukraine today.

The first pregnancy with donated eggs was reached in 1984. This procedure has got a wide scale ever since – in the United States and those European countries where it is not banned, agencies and clinics began appearing one by one. Demand creates supply. Customers don’t just want to have a child, they express their wishes down to the smallest details of the desired appearance, and the donors are selected as to the “Miss World” contest.

Looking into the base of Ukrainian egg donors you would really think that it is a WEB-site of “Miss Ukraine”. There are beautiful, young, well-educated girls with lots of interesting hobbies.  Ukrainian egg cells are very popular among European and even American infertile couples. All of that is due to that fact that Ukrainian donors are not convicted, not deprived of their parental rights and they are women with no alcohol or drug addictions as the reverse side of that can be seen in America, Ukrainian donors are decent and healthy mothers.

In the US, GDP per capita is 55.200 $, in Ukraine, it’s 2 001.6 $. Not surprisingly that a common American woman will not go for giving her egg cells to make money. In the US, donors are the ones who don’t take the job because of their previous convictions, women who are deprived of parental rights because of their alcohol or drugs addiction. Also, women frequently spend a long course of rehabilitation and treatment before their biomaterials are taken. And the patients cover all of this expenses even without suspecting it.

There’s the quite deplorable economic situation in Ukraine. There is unemployment, low-paid jobs, regular inflation. Families can hardly pay the bills, raise their children and pay the rent. Therefore, women go for the eggs donation in order to earn some money for their families.  Often they are perfectly healthy women with high education and with no bad habits.

Both there in America and here in Ukraine, there are no serious limitations with regards to the donation. By law, only not anonymous female relatives, friends of the woman or anonym aged from 20 to 35 who have their own healthy children may be the donors. In America, the donor services cost about 900 euros, and the potential parents pay for all medications to stimulate the donor (rather expensive meds), and they pay for the very procedure of IVF. Each individual cycle is paid separately. In general, one cycle of such a program approximately costs 120 thousand euros.

It’s rather strangely but Ukraine wins the US by its comfortable and well thought medical packages. Thus, one of the largest Ukrainian clinic offers IVF Reproduction just for 9900 euros. And this is the price for an unlimited number of IVF attempts. Moreover, all the services are paid by the fixed price.

Infertility issue has touched everyone. According to the World Health Organization, 7.5 million women are infertile. Each of the seventh couples in the world has been experiencing issues with conceiving or maintaining pregnancy. The number of foreign patients of Ukrainian reproductive medicine clinics increases by 25% per year. And the birth rate among American women over 40 rose sharply in recent years.  30 and 40 years-old women get pregnant safely using IVF, and women over 40 do that using donors eggs. Egg donation in the US has become a very profitable business. While this field is not regulated by the strict laws in the United States, and prices are set randomly, Ukraine attracts thousands of foreigners with pricing and quality of service.

 

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