That's correct. When they removed the question.... They used to have a permanent deferral, like most other European countries did at the time. They removed it and they saw an increase in the number of donations that were showing up as HIV positive. Either these were men who didn't know that they were HIV positive, or there was some question in Spain at the time that they didn't have a very good system for getting tested, so there were people who were coming to donate blood to get tested.
On December 8th, 2016. See this statement in context.