Rethinking the Ban - The U.S. Blood Supply and Men Who Have Sex with Men

N Engl J Med. 2017 Jan 12;376(2):174-177. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms1613425. Epub 2016 Nov 16.

Authors

Chana A Sacks¹, Robert H Goldstein¹, Rochelle P Walensky¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.A.S.), the Divisions of General Internal Medicine (C.A.S., R.P.W.) and Infectious Disease (R.H.G., R.P.W.) and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center (R.P.W.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Medical School (R.P.W.) - all in Boston.

PMID: 27959708
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms1613425

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Blood Donors / history
Blood Donors / legislation & jurisprudence*
Blood Safety / history
Government Regulation
HIV Infections / diagnosis
HIV Infections / history
HIV Infections / transmission*
History, 20th Century
Homosexuality, Male*
Humans
Male
United States