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Why do people from all over the world come to Ukraine for surrogacy?

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Surrogacy has been a reason for stormy discussion over the world for a long time. Many European countries still can’t make ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) legal according to religious and ethical reasons. Infertile couples respect laws of their countries and look for different solutions for their fertility issues where it is legal.

Recently popular countries for surrogacy were India, Thailand, and Mexico. However, when the authorities of these countries banned ART programs for foreigners, infertile Europeans had to find other countries to make their parenthood dreams come true. Ukraine is among such countries.

Although Ukraine is a European country, it may be characterized by low economic growth, political instability, and military activities in the eastern part of the country. Regardless of all these facts, it is among the top countries in terms of ART health provision.

It is well known that services of Ukrainian cardiologists, dentists, and especially fertility specialists cost much cheaper than services of European doctors but the quality and efficiency even exceed the international criteria. After India and Thailand banned surrogacy for foreigners, infertile couples went to Ukraine and the country deals with the inrush of foreign patients.

Ukrainian fertility clinics perform surrogacy and egg donation programs according to high standards in accordance with their laws. Citizens of Italy, England, Spain, France, Germany, who faced fertility issues, find everything they dreamed of in Ukraine: surrogacy from EUR 30 000, which is much cheaper than in American clinics, the best donor databases, talented doctors, “all inclusive” medical packages, full assistance throughout the program etc.

Having once visited Ukraine many foreigners make sure that it is, in fact, a nice and welcoming country with high level of medicine, so they come there again. For example, one in three Italian couples who has been through surrogacy in Ukraine, returns afterward in order to have the second child by using Ukrainian ART.

Ukrainian clinics of reproductive medicine successfully and legally realize surrogacy programs for more than 15 years. Ukraine is an attractive place for surrogacy because it’s affordable for Europeans and local legislation protects the rights of intended parents by not mentioning a surrogate mother in a birth certificate, only intended parents’ names. As for a surrogate mother, she can’t change her decision and keep a baby.

For a long time, Ukraine was unknown for the majority of Europeans. Nevertheless, its medicine always was popular among foreigners.

The main criteria of choosing Ukraine as the place for surrogacy are local mild legislation and absence of age restrictions for ART. The second important thing that foreigners admit is a good price in comparison to other foreign clinics. For instance, in the USA you have to pay for every service separately, and the entire surrogacy program will cost approximately USD 150 000. While in Ukraine you may get “All inclusive” service package paying only one fixed sum of money around EUR 29 900 without hidden extra payments.

Clients from around the world apply to Ukrainian centers for reproduction due to several reasons: such as solid experience in the field of infertility treatment, high success rates, the widespread and available information on health centers, high organization of the treatment process.

Year by year Ukraine slowly but steadily break the patterns and stereotypes. It is worth noting that there are quite strong competitive clinics in the modern market of reproductive medicine. Just recall that in the United States the surrogate child automatically gets citizenship there. The latest equipment, rich service, and comfortable legislation are very attractive for lots of Europeans. However, applying for American clinics infertile couples most likely pay for ‘Made in USA’ brand name, because the United States is more credible for each European than for example little-known Ukraine. In spite of this, Ukraine proves to the world that even unknown country is able to offer qualitative medical services, and its reproductive medicine with the use of ART is one of the best in the world.

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