The men believe who they have sex with should not prevent them from giving blood.
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"I did it before I started having sex with men - and I carried on doing it afterwards because, for me, that was the right thing to do." However, SaBTO's guidelines says those who have used PrEP within the previous three months cannot be accepted because of concerns about how it might impact on HIV screening results.Su Brailsford, a consultant in health protection at NHS Blood and Transplant , says it is"very concerned" by the programme's findings.
Some 210,000 new blood donors each year are required to replace those who stop donating and to ensure the right mix of blood groups Families have been giving evidence in an inquiry examining why thousands of people in the 1970s and 80s were given infected blood products from high-risk sources - with many contracting hepatitis B or C or HIV.
He says he would not consider abstaining from sex in order to give blood and he takes precautions over his sexual health.
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