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30 ans de refus de don du sang

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Norbert Gilmore

Résumé de la communication

Preventing HIV transmission by contaminated blood necessitates preventing donations from HIV infectious donors while encouraging everyone else to donate. Donor screening involves rejecting infected donors, deferring donors at risk of infection indefinitely or for up to a year, then testing donors for HIV and other infections when they donate. Anyone who has had male-to-male sex (MSM), even once, since 1977 is deferred indefinitely in most countries, but some such as Australia, Japan and Sweden allow MSM to donate if they have been celibate for one year, based on the strength of laboratory testing and deferral well beyond the HIV window-period. Arguments for indefinite deferral include: higher HIV prevalence of HIV in the MSM community; belief that risk-producing behavior are the same for all MSM; fear of window-period donations; worry that MSM may harbor as yet unidentified transmissible pathogens; public unacceptability of MSM blood itself; and institutional liability for increasing HIV transmission risk. Arguments against it include donor loss; donor boycotts; erosion of good-will; some MSM have no HIV transmission risk; MSK blood unacceptability (or impurity) is unjustified; no scientific basis for deferral beyond one year. Requiring donors to be “risk-free” for a year before donating would end the dilemma, increase the donor pool, recover good-will, emphasize the scientific basis for donor eligibility and deferral, simplify and harmonize deferral criteria.

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Table ronde avec Willy Rozenbaum qui a participe à la decouverte du virus VIH, actuellement president du Conseil National du Sida en France, Réjean Thomas fondateur de la Clinique L'Actuel et de medecisn du Monde au Canada, mark Wainberg, qu ia decouvert un des premeirs antiretroviraux contre le VIH le 3 TC, Norbert Gilmore ethicien de renom dans le domaine du VIH, Bruno Spire president de l'associaiton AIDES en France

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