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Gay Men Can Donate Blood If Abstinent for 1 Year, Says FDA in New Policy Lifting Lifetime Ban
Christian Post ^ | 12/28/2014 | BY MICHAEL GRYBOSKI

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"The FDA intends to issue a draft guidance recommending this proposed change in policy in 2015, which will also include an opportunity for public comment."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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To: SeekAndFind

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 .


41 posted on 12/28/2014 1:36:55 PM PST by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are all dead.


42 posted on 12/28/2014 1:38:59 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: madison10

Yup. Simply check the box on the form, and you’re good to go!


43 posted on 12/28/2014 1:45:08 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Veggie Todd

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.


44 posted on 12/28/2014 1:47:22 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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”


45 posted on 12/28/2014 1:47:54 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: SeekAndFind

And if there is a severe penalty for lying, force em to give blood every 10 months.


46 posted on 12/28/2014 1:47:56 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure. Kill normal people in the name of political correctness.


47 posted on 12/28/2014 1:57:52 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who wants AIDS blood? Families will have to bank their own blood.


48 posted on 12/28/2014 2:01:19 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Gay State Conservative

Seems to me that this is ripe for a legal challenge.


49 posted on 12/28/2014 2:18:05 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: Fido969

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.


50 posted on 12/28/2014 2:20:03 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


51 posted on 12/28/2014 2:22:32 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Fag blood is stored in special brown bags.


52 posted on 12/28/2014 2:23:26 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

IOW, gay men shouldn’t donate. How many are abstinent one year?


53 posted on 12/28/2014 2:29:34 PM PST by Williams
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To: madison10

The same group who goes around deliberately infecting one another.


54 posted on 12/28/2014 3:09:15 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: elcid1970

What happened in Germany?


55 posted on 12/28/2014 3:19:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Black lies matter. 'White privilege' is dog-whistle for 'kill white people.')
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To: Veggie Todd

If at all possible, give your blood before surgery just in case, and make sure that is blood they will give you if needed.


56 posted on 12/28/2014 3:36:11 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: Catsrus

Interesting.


57 posted on 12/28/2014 3:38:59 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: SeekAndFind

So is someone going to check their breath for the faint oder of semen?


58 posted on 12/28/2014 3:39:41 PM PST by Random Access
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Storing your own blood....article from 2006

http://www.lef.org/magazine/2006/10/report_blood/Page-01


59 posted on 12/28/2014 3:53:52 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will die before I accept a transfusion!


60 posted on 12/28/2014 3:57:29 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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