The SANBTS has in fact followed this policy for years and it is based on international practice and on data in international medical publications that men who have sex with men showed increased risk of HIV transmission and other blood infections.

Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.

They have gone through everything (donor records) and they cannot find it. We have checked the actual names of people who claim to have donated and have not seen an increase in our clinics - there has been nothing different.