“The Southern Arizona area has a lot of people willing to donate blood in any situation whether they were LGBTQ or not,” De La Cerda said.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Ricky De La Cerda used to donate blood and plasma until he was diagnosed with HIV in 2005. After that, he was disqualified from donating.
He said there is already enough treatment so HIV positive men can’t pass on the virus, so he said there should be enough technology to test blood donations. The FDA’s questionnaire might be changed to ask potential donors about their sexual partners in the past 3 months. If potential donors have more than one sexual partner, they will asked about their sexual activity. If they had anal sex with them, they would not be able to donate blood.
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