Banque nationale britannique de sperme (document en anglais)
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30 October 2014 Last updated at 01:00 GMT
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UK national sperm bank opens for business
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website
Sperm heading towards an egg
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Why choose Birmingham for a sperm bank?
A UK national sperm bank - charged with reversing a growing shortage of donor sperm - has started work in Birmingham.
Fertility clinics have become increasingly dependent on imported sperm giving rise to the so-called "Viking babies" phenomenon.
Meanwhile, data from the fertility regulator shows a 10th of IVF cycles are dependent on donated sperm or eggs.
And a third of procedures using donated material were for same-sex couples or single women.
The number of UK-based sperm donors has been increasing since 2004. However, demand has increased even faster.
Denmark and the United States have become major suppliers of sperm to British women.
newly registered sperm donors chart, 2005-2013
Banking
The Department of Health has given £77,000 to fund a national sperm bank which will be based at Birmingham Women's Hospital.
There will be a corresponding campaign to "change the face" of sperm donation, which will be run by the National Gamete Donation Trust.
Sperm donors in the UK are mostly white, which leaves people from other ethnicities struggling to find a donor.
The project will start in Birmingham before being extending to cover the whole country.
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Dr Sue Avery, the director of the Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre, told the BBC News website: "The idea of the campaign is to focus on sperm donation as a tremendously positive thing to do and that the men who do this are very special.
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