2. Are there specific criteria for access to MAP?
Medical reasons:
a. Infertility:
For a heterosexual couple? Yes/No; For women not living in a heterosexual couple? Yes/No
Medical grounds are used as the criteria for accessing MAP in the public health care. In practice however the reasons for infertility are not always known and this has not prevented public sector clinics from providing treatment in particular to heterosexual couples (i.e., provision of treatment has not always been based on a diagnosed medical condition). Another reason for not providing MAP for same-sex female couples and single women has been the lack of available donated gametes. These criteria are, however, not provided for in the legislation.
b. Risk of transmission of a disease
For a heterosexual couple? Yes; For women not living in a heterosexual couple? Yes
MAP cannot be provided if the pregnancy would pose a substantial risk to the health of the woman or of the child due to the age or health of the woman. The donor cannot donate gametes if he has a serious hereditary disease or any communicable disease that may cause a serious illness to the woman receiving assisted fertility treatment or to the child who may be born as a result of the assisted fertility treatment.
c. Other NA