KoNIBP 재단법인 국가생명윤리정책원 (KOREA NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS POLLICY)

  영국의 국가 정자 은행(national sperm bank)이 처음 문을 연지 2년 만에 새로운 기증자 모집을 중단함. 국가 정자 은행은 지난 2014년 10월에 정부로부터77,000 파운드(한화 약 1억 1천만원)를 지원받아 정자 기증자를 모집했음. 해당 기관은 기증자를 모으기 위해 켐페인을 진행해왔으나 성공적으로 기증자를 모으지 못했음.

  국가 정자 은행의 중역을 지낸 바 있는 로라 스푀스트라(Laura Spoelstra) 씨는 성공적으로 기증자를 모집하기 위해서는 더 많은 자원이 필요하다고 지적함. 

  복지부의 대변인은 국가 정자 은행에 창설 지원금을 지원했으나 기증자의 수가 충분하지 않아 해당 기관이 제대로 된 서비스를 제공하지 못했다고 밝힘. 

[The Guardian] UK National Sperm Bank Stops Recruiting Donors

Britain’s first national sperm bank has stopped recruiting new donors only two years after it opened, amid reports that it had successfully signed up only seven men during that time. The National Sperm Bank (NSB) has been struggling to meet the costs of continuing to recruit, having started up with a £77,000 government grant in October 2014.

기사: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/27/uk-national-sperm-bank-stops-recruiting-donors?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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