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Ayudando a Intended Parents HIV-Positive: Surrogacy y el Proceso SPAR

If you or your partner are living with HIV, parenthood through surrogacy may still be an option for you. The SPAR program was created to allow HIV+ men to build their families, and with Promise Surrogacy's partnership and guidance, we can help you have a family successfully, while protecting surrogates and babies from becoming infected during fertility procedures.

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A lo largo de los años he llegado a confiar en el equipo de liderazgo de Promise como mentores de confianza en el espacio del surrogacy y el IVF. Mi esposo y yo formamos nuestra familia a través del surrogacy con Promise en una época en la que pocas agencias recibían a hombres gay—y mucho menos a hombres gay HIV-positive—con la apertura y la experiencia que necesitábamos.

David Chen, Fundador

Rainbow Families Network

¿Qué es SPAR?

The Special Program of Assisted Reproduction (SPAR) has allowed hundreds of HIV+ men to build their families through surrogacy. Promise Surrogacy is proud to have assisted many couples and individuals through this program since 2009. The goal of the program is to help individuals and couples achieve pregnancy without transmitting the HIV infection to the person carrying the baby or the baby itself.

SPAR is offered in conjunction with the Northwest Fertility Research Lab Clinical Laboratory, which has helped bring hundreds of babies into the world safely through the program with no transmission of the virus. Dr. Helen Marlowe's innovative program combines semen testing and sperm washing for safe fertility procedures.

Vivir con HIV no le impide tener un hijo de forma segura a través del surrogacy. Es posible tener un bebé siendo un hombre HIV+ a través del programa SPAR y el surrogacy con Promise Surrogacy.

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¿Cómo funciona el proceso SPAR?

The medical process involves the semen from the Intended Parent being collected and screened. Any samples containing the HIV virus or any other significant pathogen are discarded. It's important to note, on average only 15% of semen samples from an infected male on anti-retroviral therapy actually carry the HIV virus. The healthy sperm is "washed" for added protection; washed sperm is free of semen. The specimen is then frozen for transportation and preservation at a participating clinic where the IVF process takes place.

Los 4 pasos del proceso SPAR son:

1

Consultations with intended parent(s) and surrogate.

Tanto los intended parents como las Surrogates tendrán conversaciones con la agencia de surrogacy sobre qué es el programa SPAR, cómo funciona el programa y si existen riesgos para la Surrogate en el programa SPAR.

2

Collection of specimens, following FDA protocol.

El padre infectado con HIV visitará la Northwest Research Clinic y dejará una muestra de semen.

3

Semen testing.

Semen will then be tested for presence of virus using the PCR HIV DNA assay. Depending on the outcome, it is then "washed" using a centrifuge to separate the sperm from the seminal fluid. Washed sperm are suspended in a new solution and cryopreserved.

4

La muestra está lista.

La muestra se envía luego a una clínica de IVF participante (la clínica de los intended parents) para la fertilización y el embryo transfer.

SPAR en cifras:

1998

El año en que se estableció el programa SPAR

0

El número de Surrogates y bebés que han contraído HIV a través del programa SPAR

500

Número de bebés nacidos a través del programa SPAR (hasta junio de 2025)

15%

Porcentaje promedio de muestras de semen que dan positivo en PCR de hombres en terapia antirretroviral

¿Cómo Encuentra Promise Surrogates para el Programa SPAR?

A cada Surrogate que solicita convertirse en Surrogate a través de Promise se le da información sobre SPAR. A las mujeres que expresan interés en el programa se les da la oportunidad de hablar con una Surrogate experimentada que ha participado en SPAR. Todas las Surrogates que se unen al programa tendrán una consulta individual con la Dra. Marlowe para conocer el programa con mayor detalle.

Since the program was created there has not been a single instance of the virus being transmitted to anyone. And not only is the SPAR program safe for the carrier, but it's also safe for the baby born through the process. Not one of the babies and carriers who have gone through this very program has contracted the virus. Learn more about nuestro proceso de emparejamiento .

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Preguntas frecuentes sobre el programa SPAR

You may have further questions about the SPAR program, and below you'll find FAQs from other intended parents. You can read our full list of FAQs about the general surrogacy process from intended parents aquí .