Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.

The SANBTS has in fact followed this policy for years and it is based on international practice and on data in international medical publications that men who have sex with men showed increased risk of HIV transmission and other blood infections.

They have gone through everything (donor records) and they cannot find it. We have checked the actual names of people who claim to have donated and have not seen an increase in our clinics - there has been nothing different.

If they did donate and lied on the forms, they were more than likely first-time donors.

It not only funds our programs, it raises awareness in the community. We feel very blessed that the show has had us one of its benefiting agencies.

It's more awareness of the staff and within the community. Sometimes, (organ donation) has a kind of Frankenstein-ish image to it. We try to dispel those myths about it.