Condition
Current hepatitis C infection
Individual at risk
Recipient
Guidance at RECRUITMENT for adult volunteer donor and maternal donor (cord blood donation)
Unacceptable
Guidance at CT/WORK-UP
Unacceptable. However, in very rare circumstances such a donor might be acceptable to the requesting transplant centre.
Justification for guidance
Hepatitis C infection is transmissible by transfusion of blood and stem cells.