Deferred blood donors and their care

Getting personal with blood donors – the rationale for, methodology of and an overview of participants in the UK blood donor survey

“…This proposal was accepted by the health ministers of Scotland, Wales and England, and on 7 November 2011 the blood services of these countries changed their donor deferral to accept MSM if they had not had oral or anal sex with another man within the previous 12 months period. The SaBTO report included a recommendation that there should be robust surveillance following any change, and emphasised the importance of all blood donors fully disclosing any risk behaviours at the time of donor selection to allow the donor selection guidelines (DSG) to be applied (Beal, ). Part of the evidence for recommending the change related to modelling the impact of different deferral scenarios for MSM on the risk of failing to detect an HIV positive donation due to a window period donation (Davison et al , ).…”