Guidelines on blood donations are causing people who would be donors to get creative
, Italy has seen “no higher incidence of HIV transmissions as a result” of the guidelines, which were adopted in 2001.
According to Dr. Jennifer Verbesey, the surgeon who performed Lynch’s operation at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., the chances that a patient will contract HIV from an MSM kidney donor is “infinitesimally” small; she estimates the odds as “one in many millions.” “The only total rule out was that you could not donate if you had HIV,” Paschke tells MTV News. “Nobody should rule themselves out, especially now.”
Even as other agencies update their guidelines, the FDA has remained extremely resistant to adopting new policies on MSM donations. Just days before he donated a kidney, Lynch emailed a representative with the agency to protest the current 12-month deferral window. A representative with its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research replied by claiming the FDA is “sensitive to the concerns of potential donors and other individuals affected by current blood safety policies.
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