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SANBS explains controversial PrEP blood donation ban
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mambaonline.comAs it launches a new diversity campaign, the SA National Blood Service (SANBS) has insisted that blocking people on PrEP from donating blood is not meant to discriminate against gay men. MambaOnline was recently approached by Daniel*, a member of the LGBTQ+ community who said he’d been turned away from donating blood because he’d used PrEP, the HIV prevention medication.
The rejection was triggering for him because of the SANBS’s previous discriminatory ban on gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood.
That ban, dropped in 2014, was based on the belief that individuals in these groups were more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviours, thereby making them more likely to pass on HIV into the blood
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