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In France, sperm banks(Centres d’Etudes et de Conservation du Sperm: CECOS).operate in accordance with two main principles formulated by Georges David:1 “All sperm donations must be given voluntarily without payment and the donation must come from a couple who has had one or more children”. These principles were aimed at removing the clandestine cloak from semen donation and recasting the image of the donor in a healthier light, free from any sense of shame. These worthy aims, however, added considerably to the existing problems of donor recruitment. Only by a greater awareness of these problems and by greater efforts to overcome them will it be possible for sperm banks in France to continue functioning in strict adherence to the two principles.
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David, G. Les banques de sperme en France.Arch. Fr. Pediatr. 32:401, 1975.
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Le Lannou, D., Lobel, B., Chambon, Y. (1980). Sperm Banks and Donor Recruitment in France. In: David, G., Price, W.S. (eds) Human Artificial Insemination and Semen Preservation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8824-1_15
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