Posted on 07/11/2014 9:48:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
•Men who have sex with other men have been banned from donating blood by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1977.
•According to the CDC, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63 percent of new HIV infections in 2010.
Universities across the country are hosting a National Gay Blood Drive today to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to change its current policies which prevent gay men from donating blood.
According to the FDA’s website, men who have sex with other men (MSM) have an increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and other types of infections that can be transmitted by transfusion.
Activists have pushed for gay men to be able to donate blood for the past several years. In 2010, a government health committee heard testimonies and reviewed the policy, but ultimately recommended keeping the ban and researching alternative policies.
The University of Cincinnati’s Hoxworth Blood Center, Lane Community College in Oregon, and Western Michigan University are several of the sites for the blood drive, which encourages gay and bisexual men in the community to bring friends and family to donate blood as their proxies.
Josh Neumeyer, coordinator for the Hoxworth blood drive, told Campus Reform that he used to donate blood regularly in college but hasn’t been able to since he became sexually active as a gay man.
“I would gladly [give blood] again,” Neumeyer said in an interview. “But at the end of the day, it will be up to the FDA who makes the final decision with the policy.”
However, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a national public health institute, says that gay and bisexual men are more severely affected by HIV than any other group in the United States.
According to the CDC, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63 percent of new HIV infections in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, new HIV infections increased 22 percent among gay and bisexual men between the ages of 13 to 24. Overall, new HIV infections increased 12 percent among men of all ages between those years.
Dr. Ronald Sacher, director of the Hoxworth Blood Center, claims that in the past 37 years screening practices for safe blood has improved.
“It’s quite apparent that over the years, with the improvement of the safety of the blood supply, that perhaps these policies need to be revisited, and that’s the momentum to re-look at the policies,” he told WCPO Cincinnati.
Sacher recommends—along with America’s Blood Centers, AABB, and the American Red Cross—that the FDA changes their indefinite ban on homosexual men to a 12-month deferral period. This deferral period would be the same as for those who have an increased sexual behavior.
Activists have pushed for gay men to be able to donate blood for the past several years. In 2010, a government health committee heard testimonies and reviewed the policy, but ultimately recommended keeping the ban and researching alternative policies.
Those at the blood drive today will be given the opportunity to sign a petition against the FDA’s policy which will be sent to the White House.
Both.
> Are they insane? Or, do they just want to kill the rest of us?
Both insane and mentally ill and if anyone revceives blood from one of these HIV infested blood centers there are plenty of attorneys standing by ready to make a fortune.
> According to the CDC, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63 percent of new HIV infections in 2010...
The other 34 % came from lesbian and bisexual females...
Now the blood supply will be as tainted as the office of the Presidency. Fitting.
People in a high risk group for blood diseases donating to the blood bank. What could go wrong?
One might think people would have learned from that mess in Arkansas a while back...oh..that’s right...little coverage of that from Clintonista media.
Blood collection organizations will just flush the collected blood down the drain.
No problem, just put a label on the blood. For example,
“Tested good, but from Homos”
The other labeled “Tested good, but not from Homos”
I will choose from the “not Homos batch.
This country is becoming Banana Republic material
Political Correctness Kills.
Their political quest for supremacy even trumps rational public health and hygiene.
Yet they refuse to admit that their lifestyle is harmful to themselves and others.
Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
Yet because I was stationed in Germany more than thirty years ago & was giving blood until well after 9-11, I’m forever banned due to the Mad Cow scare in Europe.
If you’re A-Neg you’ll just have to look elsewhere.
Coming up next, National Poison Drinking Day!
Then, National Stab Yourself In The Face Day!
Because reality is so prejudice and stuff.
Start a private blood bank and use it only for LGBT people. Then we’ll see if they shut up.
Political Correctness Kills.
1. The ban will be lifted
2. Those public health professionals that protest will be out of jobs
3. Any infections resulting from the policy change will be subject to a news blackout and/or blamed on something else
4. Those that can afford it will continue to abandon the official health care system
Can I make an observation?
Other high risk people are also banned from giving blood, not just homosexuals.
Anybody involved in prostitution, either buying or selling such services, is banned.
People who are IV drug users are banned.
People who spent time in England during the time of mad cow disease outbreaks is banned.
Point is, homosexuals are not being singled out. This is not a case of discrimination based on animus towards a homosexual. Yet the LGBT peoples are trying to falsely claim that it is discriminatory based on their orientation.
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yes and yes
everyone who signs the petition should get a free transfusion of gay blood, just to show they walk the walk
If a parent they should get one for their child
Obamas first
wait
regardless of the “law”
ask if the potus and members of congress will ever ever EVER get a blood transfusion from a supply that includes gays
.....and why not
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