RealFeedApp Prep users must wait three months before donating blood
Prep medication, which is 99% effective against HIV, requires a three-month waiting period before blood donation to prevent false-negative test results.
- Field
- medicine and diagnostics
- What they did
- Researchers found that medications used for HIV prevention (Prep) can make it harder to detect the infection in blood donations.
- Why it matters
- This creates an additional safeguard requiring donors to wait three months after their last dose to prevent potential transmission of HIV through undetected donations.
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