Posted on 12/21/2015 12:02:09 PM PST by xzins
The Food and Drug Administration has lifted the ban on blood donations from men who have engaged in sexual relations with another man. Now, in order to donate blood, a man will have had to have been abstinent for the period of one year prior to donation.
This new policy is similar to the deferral period for a woman who has engaged in sexual activity with a man who had previously sexual activity with another man, or for someone who has traveled to a country where malaria is prevalent.
The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on Monday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year. Under previous rules, men who have had sex with men are banned from donating indefinitely.
“Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the best available scientific evidence, at this point in time, relevant to the U.S. population. We will continue to actively conduct research in this area and further revise our policies as new data emerge," Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a statement Monday.
The move partially rolls back a 1983 ban that has since been described as medically unwarranted. Efforts to eliminate that ban, which have crawled forward under the Obama administration, mark the biggest step in a decades-old debate on whether gay and bisexual men, who are at a higher risk for HIV/AIDS, can safely donate blood.
Pure insanity.
When donating blood last year, I had an interminable wait because I’d been in Europe at the end of one of their mad cow scares.
The probability of mad cow in terms of population is FAR less than HIV, yet they haven’t eased that up.
Proof that this is all related to political pressure and not medical safety.
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Can the FDA be sued if one get HIV as a result of a change in this policy
My Godson died of Aids in 1984 after a transfusion——untested blood in those days.
He was 21.
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This is not good. As a long time blood donor, this pisses me off.
This is how AIDS killed the hemophiliac victims and assorted others in the 80’s. Ryan White Arthur Ashe etc. Homosexuals are a severely immune compromised population. It’ like giving small pox blankets to the Indians.
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I guess if a person is facing elective surgery then collecting their own blood is an option.
ANYONE having elective surgery should make arrangements to donate their own blood in advance if it might be needed. Plenty of people (the president among them) do this routinely as a precaution.
And the efforts to destroy the USA continue unabated under the 0bama regime
I hope I never need a transfusion...
There is a large sub-population of homosexuals that have sex with literally hundreds of other men each year. If you introduce a new communicable disease to any one of them of course it is going to rapidly become an epidemic, spreading not just among those homosexuals but also among all other homosexuals that they have sex with.
“Now they are putting EVERYONE at risk just to placate the desires of some deviants. To make matter worse, there IS NO SHORTAGE of blood.”
I think their desire is make sure as many people get infected as possible. The old “share the misery” plan to make everything more “fair”.
They should ban angry white male christian blood. Just bring the whole thing down.
You guess?
Its the only option.
You guess?
Its the only option.
AIDS is a disease that afflicts the needle-users-drug abusers, sexually promiscuous, and homosexuals. For decades the left has been trying to say that it’s a mainstream disease when everyone knows that it’s not. Now it seems like the govt is going to make it a mainstream disease. Maybe they are trying to get more funding? - I don’t know.
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