Posted on 12/28/2014 12:32:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it's easing restrictions on gay men donating blood, reversing a policy enacted during the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic decades earlier.
In a statement released Tuesday, the FDA said easing the ban came after several years of research into the matter.
"Following this review, and taking into account the recommendations of advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA, the agency will take the necessary steps to recommend a change to the blood donor deferral period for men who have sex with men from indefinite deferral to one year since the last sexual contact," stated the FDA.
"The FDA intends to issue a draft guidance recommending this proposed change in policy in 2015, which will also include an opportunity for public comment."
In 1983, the FDA established a lifetime ban on blood donations from men who had had sexual intercourse with other men.
The ban came in response to the HIV-AIDS epidemic, as many were contracting the disease via blood transfusions from blood donated by HIV-positive individuals.
A notable example was professional African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe, who contracted the AIDS virus via a blood transfusion.
"At the time, little was known about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease, and there was no quick test to determine whether somebody had it," reported The New York Times.
"Restrictions on donors were written when HIV testing was slower and less refined. Today, some tests can detect the virus in blood as little as nine days after infection."
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Other countries have changed their policies somewhat as well...The Canadian policy was that if a man had sex even once with another man since 1977, he was ineligible. In 2013, they changed this to 5 years..... https://www.blood.ca/en/about-us/msm-policy .
We are all dead.
Yup. Simply check the box on the form, and you’re good to go!
Note to self: Try not to never need a transfusion.
Note to self: Have close friends and family on had to give blood if I need a transfusion.
NURSE: “It says here you lead a homosexual life, is that true”?
LANCE: “I prefer gay”
NURSE: “Well, we all prefer to be happy, now when was the last time were you happy with another man”?
LANCE: “I don’t remember”
NURSE: “NEXT”
And if there is a severe penalty for lying, force em to give blood every 10 months.
Sure. Kill normal people in the name of political correctness.
Who wants AIDS blood? Families will have to bank their own blood.
Seems to me that this is ripe for a legal challenge.
I guess the Jehovah Witnesses were on the right track when they refuse blood transfusions. I know a woman who is a JW and needed a blood transfusion - she declined it, of course, and instead ate beets - lots and lots of red beets. She did recover.
I’m permanently banned from donating blood because I was stationed in Germany more than thirty years ago.
The government now trusts faggies more than it trusts its vets. Got it.
Fag blood is stored in special brown bags.
IOW, gay men shouldn’t donate. How many are abstinent one year?
The same group who goes around deliberately infecting one another.
What happened in Germany?
If at all possible, give your blood before surgery just in case, and make sure that is blood they will give you if needed.
Interesting.
So is someone going to check their breath for the faint oder of semen?
Storing your own blood....article from 2006
http://www.lef.org/magazine/2006/10/report_blood/Page-01
I will die before I accept a transfusion!
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