1.   Even couples who use donor eggs or donor sperm, search catalogs of donors to find people who resemble themselves.

2.   And men, who tend to equate fertility with virility, are likely to keep their use of donor sperm a secret.

3.   At that same time, growing numbers of single women and lesbian couples are choosing to conceive using donor sperm.

4.   But most fertility clinics now follow guidelines in which donors are tested for AIDS over a six-month period, and the donor sperm is frozen.

5.   Even so, transmission of HIV through donor sperm back then was rare.

6.   Goldbaum said few people at the time considered donor sperm as a major avenue of risk for AIDS.

7.   Judith Billings likely received fresh donor sperm during a time period when there was no test for HIV.

8.   Later, it recommended legislation to repair deficiencies in the testing of donor sperm.

9.   One Belgian study of women receiving healthy, donor sperm found that the more anxious a woman was about conceiving, the longer it took to get pregnant.

10.   She runs groups in Los Angeles for donor egg, donor sperm, and adoptive parents.