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Concluding that patient safety outweighs the risk of discrimination, a Canadian advisory panel rejected calls to abandon a 15-year-old screening procedure that prohibits male homosexuals from giving blood. "It is prudent
to continue to qualify donors through application of criteria that reduce the chance of infectious blood being collected," the 11- member panel said.
Gay groups had argued that the current prohibition on blood donations by homosexual men should be lifted to focus on high-risk behavior, such as unprotected anal sex, rather than automatically ruling out a group of people.
Editor's Note: from The Lancet
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