[goseminoles]

Isn’t there a testing protocol in place? Has anyone(in recent years) received HIV+ blood?
If the answer is no, I don’t see the problem. No difference from you or I.

[Dayman]

HIV can lay dormant in your body and blood for up to 10 years before becoming detectable. That's the problem with letting a high-risk subgroup donate blood.

[mockingbyrd]

There isn't a testing protocol that can find HIV in it's earliest stages. You can pass along HIV and other dieseases and not realize and it can be missed in testing.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

HIV positive blood is removed by screening assays that require an additional test to verify an HIV positive result.

This means that you get to pay for blood that can’t be used.

Additionally the screening assays can’t be made perfect. The more HIV positive blood that gets donated, the more likely that someone will get HIV positive blood, serum, cells or platelets.

It would be such a rare occurance, it will be almost impossible to tell how the victim acquired the HIV virus, leaving the family of the victim to speculate on what the victim has been doing.