Donation
- Cancer treatment, vasectomy, injury, or other male fertility factors can result in no sperm in semen
- An inherited disease such as haemophilia or Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy will risk the life of a resulting baby
- Incompatible blood types – for example if the female partner is Rhesus (Rh) sensitised and the male partner is Rh positive this makes pregnancy problematic
- For the treatment of single women or lesbian couples
- The male partner has an incurable sexually transmitted disease such as HIV
