For the record - April 5, 2010

HIV transmission: An article in some editions of Sunday’s Section A about the debate surrounding a proposal to relax a ban on the donation of blood products by gay men stated that, according to federal health officials, HIV is known to have been transmitted via blood products nine times from 1994 through 2007, the last year for which data are available. Although data were collected through 2007, the last known case of such transmission occurred in 2002, a year in which there were more than 13.5 million transfusions in the U.S., according to the American Assn. of Blood Banks and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

GOP candidates on TV: An article in Wednesday’s LATExtra about California Republican candidates for U.S. Senate who appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity” said the television program was taped at the Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley. The library, which had been in unincorporated Ventura County, was annexed by the city of Simi Valley in late December.

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