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Doesn the policy eliminate healthy donors at a time when more donors are needed because of blood shortages?

April 26, 2017blood donors Eliminate healthy needed policy shortages time

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Doesn the policy eliminate healthy donors at a time when more donors are needed because of blood shortages?

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FDA realizes that this policy will defer many healthy donors. However, FDA’s MSM policy minimizes even the small risk of getting infectious diseases such as HIV or hepatitis through a blood transfusion.