HIV risk factors (oral PrEP/PEP) — can I give blood? (Vitalant (US))
What is the waiting period for HIV risk factors (oral PrEP/PEP) — can I give blood? (Vitalant (US))?
For HIV risk factors (oral PrEP/PEP), waiting period is 3 months; condition is after taking oral medications to prevent HIV infection such as PrEP or PEP; outcome is temporary deferral; blood service is Vitalant (US), recorded from its source on 2026-08-13.
Taking oral medications to prevent HIV infection such as PrEP or PEP in the past three months.
— vitalant.org, retrieved 2026-08-13
3 months
How long you must wait before donating (or the age/weight bound), exactly as this blood service prints it — the passage it comes from is quoted on the record page. National services genuinely disagree on the same criterion; check the service you would donate with.
- Criterion
- HIV risk factors (oral PrEP/PEP)
- Blood service
- Vitalant (US) our reading
- Waiting period
- 3 months
- Condition
- after taking oral medications to prevent HIV infection such as PrEP or PEP
- Outcome
- temporary deferral our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
Source
- vitalant.orghttps://www.vitalant.org/eligibility