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Home Blood Donation Blood Donation Who should not donate blood?

Who should not donate blood?

*Men who have had sexual contact with other men since 1977

*Anyone who has ever received clotting factor concentrates

*Anyone with a positive test for HIV (AIDS virus)

*Men and women who have engaged in sex for money or drugs since 1977

*Anyone who has had hepatitis since his or her eleventh birthday

*Anyone who has had babesiosis or Chagas disease

*Anyone who has taken Tegison for psoriasis

*Anyone who has risk factors for Crueutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or who has an immediate family member with CJD

*Anyone who has risk factors for vCJD

*Anyone who spent three months or more in the United Kingdom from 1980 through 1996

*Anyone who has ever used intravenous drugs (illegal IV drugs)