Posted on 08/07/2023 1:58:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Other screening questions will remain the same -- for everyone. Potential donors will be asked about risk factors including sexual activity -- whether they have had sexual contact with a new partner in the past three months or had anal sex, which would require them to wait three months before donating.
The Red Cross said the decision is supported by decades of data collection and assessments, including the ADVANCE study, which was funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA approved new rules for blood donation in May that eliminated waiting periods on the basis of sexual orientation and brings the United States in line with countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.
The study found that blood donor history questions could identify sexually active gay or bisexual men who had "lower-risk behaviors" that would be eligible to donate.
FDA issues new rules, makes it easier for gay, bisexual men to donate blood "There's so much in the world that you can't help with, and you sometimes have to see people going through difficult times, but something like giving blood feels like something so small that you can do, and it means a lot to me that I'll be able to do that again," Andrew Goldstein, a cancer researcher from Los Angeles, said in a statement.
In the ADVANCE study, more than 66% of gay or bisexual men reported only one sexual partner and no anal sex. Sixty-nine percent reported no new partners or anal sex in the past three months.
According to the Red Cross, every 2 seconds someone in the United States needs blood and or platelets. The average blood cell transfusion is about three units of red blood cells, and about 29,000 units are needed every day. A car accident can require a person to receive as many as 100 units of blood.
"The Red Cross celebrates this historic move as significant progress and remains committed to achieving an inclusive blood donation process that treats all potential donors with equality and respect while maintaining the safety of the blood supply," the Red Cross said in a statement.
Now that the blood banks are polluted with the Fauci poison anyway, what difference does it make?
Bank your own blood.
I still remember when the Clinton Crime Clan in Arkansas was selling blood plasma from AIDS infected prisoners.
Lots of people with hemophilia died as a result.
They will LIE.
I guess not enough people are dying from vax spike protein blood transfusions.
Are they trying to spread HIV and MONKEYpox to the general population?
Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
The name was honest.
Time to Kramer my own blood.
Yes and militant gays deliberately donated blood to taint the blood supply forcing the US government to spend more tax dollars to fight the disease.
Meanwhile, the risk of us having CJD is way lower than the risk of this group's blood.
A MOST unfortunate brand name.
Did they ever come back under another name?
Yep. 👍
I was in Germany from 77-81, spent a few days in London. That's all it took.
If you plan to go to the hospital for a procedure, in many non-communist localities, you and your relatives can give blood for your procedure and not take a chance with blood from the wild.
Wow.
So...AIDS patients have to be on a strict drug regimen for HIV to be undetectable for a significant period of time. What studies has the FDA done on the effects of HIV drugs on non-AIDS patients?
What? I thought it was three months, before Dec. 31s, 1996.
And I am convinced my husband’s friend and colleague died from it in the UK. It is a horrific way to go.
And they don’t have a test for a prion disease yet? Nuts!
You can be sure the wealth sovereigns running our government won’t be using any risky blood donations.
You also have the option to self-donate; but that is possible only in advance of scheduled operations with plenty of lead time.
For the ER, looks like a bit of a Hobson’s choice: Risk getting blood that may be tainted with HIV or bleeding to death.
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