National Gay Blood Drive Campaign Comes to Kansas City

... potential donors they are turning away with this rule, which was put into place during the very beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early '80s. Since then, the campaign argues, HIV testing has vastly improved and denying healthy, HIV-negative ...

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