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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2011 Mar 14;11(6):1188–1200. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03460.x

Table 1.

Categories of behavior leading to classification of High Risk Donor

Category Description
MSM men who have had sex with another man in the preceding 5 years
IDU persons who report nonmedical intravenous, intramuscular, or subcutaneous injection of drugs in the preceding 5 years
Hemophiliac persons with hemophilia or related clotting disorders who have received human derived clotting factor concentrates
CSW men and women who have engaged in sex in exchanged for money or drugs in the preceding 5 years
High Risk Sex persons who have had sex in the preceding 12 months with any person described in items 1–4 above or with a person known or suspected to have HIV infection
Exposed to HIV persons who have been exposed in the preceding 12 months to known or suspected HIV infected blood through percutaneous inoculation or through contact with an open wound, non-intact skin, or mucous membrane
Incarcerated inmates of correctional systems

MSM = Men who have sex with other men, IDU = injection drug user, CSW = Commercial Sex Worker, HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus