Blood donor deferral policies across Europe and characteristics of men who have sex with men screened for human immunodeficiency virus in blood establishments: Data from the European Men-who-have-sex-with-men internet survey (EMIS)

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 7-16

  Schink, Susanne B ^a,b   Offergeld, Ruth ^a   Schmidt, Axel J ^c   Marcus, Ulrich ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural surveillance.; Blood donation; HIV; Men who have sex with men; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNET; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; TIME; BLOOD; DONOR SELECTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; TRANSMISSION;

BLOOD DONORS; DONOR SELECTION; EUROPE; HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES;

EID: 85041216624     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2017.0109-16     Document Type: Article

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