Safety, inclusivity and risk assessment

This session was held on June 3, 2025, during the 35th Regional ISBT Congress in Milan, Italy.

The Safety, inclusivity and risk assessment session included the following presentations:

1. Katy Davison: The FAIR way forward: sex and safety, did the UK get it right?
2. Sheila O'brien: Compliance with gender neutral sexual behaviour based blood donor screening questions
3. Marion C Lanteri: North American trends in parvovirus B19 plasma reactive rates in 2024 and beyond
4. Eduard Grebe: Development of a risk assessment model of HIV transfusion transmission associated with undisclosed use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by blood donors
5. Hans Van Remoortel: HIV prevalence and risk factors in Belgium’s transgender and non-binary community: implications for blood donation policies
6. Yun-Yuan Chen: Potential impact of direct-acting antiviral treatment on the trends in HCV incidence and genotypes evolution among blood donors with newly acquired infections in Taiwan

Moderators: Marion Vermeulen, Silvano Rossini

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Find below the complete congress programme (pdf) and the link to the Milan congress abstracts, which were published in Vox Sanguinis.