All medical procedures at the ISIDA clinic are conducted according to the Ukrainian legal system. Find out below about the legal norms regulating assisted reproductive technologies.
When using IVF the law encourages transferring not more than one or two embryos per attempt. In the case of severe medical indications and when the woman consents, more embryos may be transferred.
Embryo cryoconservation is allowed by Ukrainian law. Frozen embryos may be used in the subsequent attempts. Ukrainian law doesn’t prescribe a particular time frame for embryo preservation. Legislation doesn’t forbid transporting embryos but neither does it prescribe conditions explicitly.
The selective reduction of embryos in multiple pregnancies is allowed in cases where it threatens a woman’s health as well as some other cases. This is a joint decision that the woman and her doctor make. The legal prerequisites for embryos reduction are that the woman has made an informed consent and the pregnancy is less than 10 weeks.
Instructions on the use of assisted reproductive technologies are approved by the Ukrainian Ministery of Health Care. Issued December 12, 2008
Sperm and egg donation in Ukraine is anonymous and the ISIDA clinic keeps medical confidentiality regarding individual donors. Donation at the ISIDA clinic occurs for medical reasons only and the consent should be signed by the patients. According to the law, donors may not have parental rights and obligations for the future child.
Potential egg donors
The law has high requirements for prospective donors. An egg donor must be a woman between the ages of 20-32, in good health, without hereditary diseases, who has a healthy child of her own, who doesn’t have bad habits such as drug addiction or alcoholism, who is and without negative phenotypic manifestations. The ISIDA clinic has additional requirements considering donor’s health and provides extensive medical, genetic, and gynecological diagnosis of future donors.
Instructions on the use of assisted reproductive technologies are approved by the Ukrainian Ministery of Health Care. Issued December 12, 2008
(in vitro fertlization) — is an infertility treatment technique used in the case when the egg and the sperm cannot meet in a natural way. Fertilization is done at the lab and then the embryo is transferred into the woman’s body. If necessary donor materials can be recommended.
Assisted reproductive method when sperm got after testicular biopsy. Reproductologists use this method in case of male reproductive dysfunction, when sperm cannot be obtained in a regular way.
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
(Intracytoplasmic sperm injection) — an assisted reproductive method of treating severe cases of male infertility. For this purpose the sperm are selected under the microscope and then one by one are injected into each egg.
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Intrauterine insemination is used in case of slight disorders of the reproductive function of one of the partners. Sperm of the husband or donor sperm is put into the uterus and fertilization happens in a natural way.
Assisted reproductive method when frozen from previous cycles material is used.
Assisted reproductive technique when donor eggs of a healthy woman are used for fertilization.