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Bad blood: gay men and blood donation
Why do some countries now accept blood donations from men who have ever had sex with men, and many do not\n\ndoi:10.1136/bmj.b318
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Behavioural Donor Deferral Criteria Review: Final Report to the New Zealand Blood Service
In 1999 New Zealand introduced a MSM policy of deferral for 10 years. In 2007 an expert committee recommended five years' deferral with clearer definitions of risky sexual behaviour.
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Evaluation of the de-selection of men who have had sex with men from blood donation in England
The justification for many bans are based on this 2003 paper which concludes that removing the exclusion might result in a fivefold increase in the risk of HIV infected blood entering the blood supply and that changing deferral to one year from the last homosexual contact would increase the risk by 60%. There are no estimates for the risk associated with a longer finite deferral.
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The McGill Tribune: The blood drive debate
McGill students' society banned blood drives at McGill in 2007.
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Who Can Give Blood?
National Blood Service for England and North Wales screening question: Are you a man who has had oral or anal sex with another man (even if you used a condom)? Answering yes results in permanent deferral.
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Bad blood? Gay men, the Red Cross and blood donation
The Australian Red Cross defers MSM donors for 12 months. A 5-year discrimination complaint against the ARCBS was dismissed in May 2009.
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Behavior-Based Blood Donors Deferrals in the Era of Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT), March 9 2006
In 2006, the AABB, America's Blood Centers and American Red Cross recommended to the FDA that the deferral period for men who had sex with other men should be changed to be equivalent with the deferral period for heterosexual's judged to be at risk.
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Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex with Other Men Questions and Answers
FDA (U.S.): Men who have had sex with other men, at any time since 1977 (the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States) are currently deferred as blood donors.
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Dropbox review: the do-everything storage service | Peter's Useful Crap
also: http://www.theblog.ca/dropbox-web-server
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Blood safety case begins in Ottawa; CHS has intervener status
Canadian Hemophilia Society supports current indefinite msm deferral policy.
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Summary of International Policies relating to the Exclusion of Men who have Sex with Men from Blood Donation
From the UK National Blood Service for England & North Wales
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Why we ask men who have sex with men not to give blood
From the UK National Blood Service's Blood Safety leaflet information for donors
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Canadian AIDS Society Proposes Solution to Update and Enhance the Safety of Canada's Blood Screening Survey
Canadian Aids Society is appearing as a Freind of the Court, and is proposing an amendment to the Canadian Blood Services' screening question
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Questions and Answers MSM Policy Decision 2007
In 2007 CBS reviewed its MSM deferral policy, deciding to maintain an indefinite deferral (i.e., a permanent ban).
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Record of Donation 2008-11-18
The CBS predonation screening question: "Have you had sex with a man, even one time since 1977?"
