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SOURCES:
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Louis Katz, MD, acting chief medical director, Impact Life.
Jeff Crowley, former director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy.
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Jeffrey McCullough, MD, global blood advisor, professor emeritus of laboratory medicine and pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Oct. 22, 2010.
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Blood: “HIV Incidence in US first-time blood donors and transfusion risk with a 12 month deferral for men who have sex with men.”
Brian Custer, PhD, vice president of research and scientific programs, Vitalant Research Institute.
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AIDS: “Higher colorectal tissue HIV infectivity in cisgender women compared with MSM before and during oral pre-exposure prophylaxis.”
Terrence Higgins Trust: “Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those of gay men for the first time in a decade.”
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National Hemophilia Foundation: “APLUS statement on FDA policy changes related to blood and plasma donation.”
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