You can not contract the AIDS virus by becoming a bone marrow donor. For your information, please read the following facts about the AIDS virus. Any man who has had sex with another man, even one time, since 1977. Persons with hemophilia who have received clotting concentrates. The AIDS virus can be transmitted through blood.
Any blood testing positive is destroyed.
Any person who is one or more of the risk groups listed must not sign up as a voluntary bone marrow donor. It can take up to twelve weeks or longer after AIDS infection before antibodies can be detected by a test.