Donors: HIV Infection

(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent correspondence his Department has received on the restrictions on gamete donations for people living with HIV.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

The Government has no current plans to review the legislation related to the quality and safety of reproductive tissues and cells.

The Department recently contributed to a response to correspondence on the current guidance for gamete donation and people living with HIV. In the reply we stated that, in view of the current scientific understanding of HIV transmission risk, the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs does not support or advise a change to the current guidance.

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