Social and behavioral characteristics of male blood donors and their sexual partners: an analysis to define risk subsets.
Tassila SalomonIsabel GomesMina Cintho OzahataCarlos Henrique Valente MoreiraClaudia Di Lorenzo OliveiraThelma T GonçalezMaria Esther DuarteCarolina MirandaAnna Bárbara Carneiro ProiettiEster SabinoCesar de Almeida NetoBrian Custernull nullPublished in: Transfusion (2019)
Sexual orientation questions on the donor questionnaire could be replaced without great loss in the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value. Social and sexual behaviors of donors and their partners are proxies for HIV risk and can help to develop modified questions that will need controlled trials to be validated.