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UK drops abstinence period on gay men donating blood
Deutsche Welle ^ | 12.14.2020 | Tanika Godbole

Posted on 12/13/2020 9:33:10 PM PST by Olog-hai

The United Kingdom on Monday lifted its ban on gay and bisexual men in long term relationships donating blood. The previous policy banned men who have had sex with men in the past three months from donating blood, due to fears of HIV transmission.

The change in policy will be effective in 2021, according to British media outlets. Assessment of donors will be made on an individual basis, rather than a blanket restriction. According to reports, Britain’s NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said men in a long term relationship will be able to donate blood, if there is no known exposure to a sexually transmitted infection and they are not using anti-HIV drugs PreP or PEP.

A two-year review conducted by FAIR (For the Assessment of Individualised Risk) investigated whether sexual behaviors could be an effective measure of assessing individual risk of sexually transmitted infection, which could be passed on through blood transfusions. The UK government has taken into consideration the findings of this study, reported The Telegraph. […]

The US lifted a ban on men who have sex with men donating blood in 2015, but up until earlier this year required an abstinence period of 12 months. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that was reduced to three months. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: blood; blooddonors; homosexualagenda; uk
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1 posted on 12/13/2020 9:33:10 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Does the herd need thinning?


2 posted on 12/13/2020 9:34:45 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Olog-hai

Oh yeh....This is “follow the Science”.


3 posted on 12/13/2020 9:36:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: DeFault User

“Does the herd need thinning?”

Yes - China screwed up and didn’t make Covid lethal enough. The Globalists will be implementing other means.


4 posted on 12/13/2020 9:39:24 PM PST by bluejean (Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
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To: Olog-hai

Gay men can’t donate on their period? What?


5 posted on 12/13/2020 9:41:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Olog-hai

when will it become mandatory that people receive aids tainted blood? Because pretty soon the left will be screaming that ‘making sure the blood isn’t tainted is homophobic, and demand that tests be doen away with’


6 posted on 12/13/2020 9:41:56 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Olog-hai

cant kill off normal folks fast enough, apparently


7 posted on 12/13/2020 9:43:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Of course, drug addicts and homosexuals are observing COVID19 social distancing so that the abstinence time can be reduced. Riiiiiiight...


8 posted on 12/13/2020 9:44:14 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve read that people with HIV, even if they’re taking prep, will die 14 years early, and are extremely likely to get dementia. The homosexuals want more normal people to get these symptoms, so the government will be forced to spend trillions to save people from their stupid behavior.


9 posted on 12/13/2020 9:48:54 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Olog-hai

I just threw up a little.


10 posted on 12/13/2020 9:51:51 PM PST by PGR88
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To: NetAddicted
I’ve read that people with HIV, even if they’re taking prep, will die 14 years early, and are extremely likely to get dementia.

Compared to the general population, homosexual men have many multiples higher risk of dying of cancer, suicide, violence from partners, overdose and of course disease.

It really is a terrible way to live.

11 posted on 12/13/2020 9:55:05 PM PST by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

This time it wasn’t just me reading the headline wrong.
Lol! It could have had at least three different meanings.


12 posted on 12/13/2020 10:00:28 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

The West is on a suicide mission.


13 posted on 12/13/2020 10:06:46 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Olog-hai
Give Blood
14 posted on 12/13/2020 10:08:18 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Olog-hai

let me make this very simple. Homosexual sex is a risk factor for aids and other sexual transmitted diseases but now via government edict it is not? What the hell, covid is not transmitted when the left wing gathers, but it sure as hell is when the right wing gathers.

POLITICAL INSANITY IS THIS.

Disease is disease. It infects and has absolutely no political bias.


15 posted on 12/13/2020 10:51:26 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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The previous policy banned men who have had sex with men in the past three months from donating blood, due to fears of HIV transmission.

If the previous ban indeed extended only to men who had had sex with other men in the past three months, then I say: You might just as well do away with the ban all together!

Three months is nothing!

I mean: Just imagine some homosexual admitting that, only three months plus one day ago, he had been frequenting bathhouses and indulging in anonymous sex in their notorious "dark rooms" - but that, since then, he had been strictly abstinent.

Would you be reassured?

Regards,

16 posted on 12/13/2020 11:33:56 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Olog-hai

Idiocy this is!

To put this is true perspective imagine imagine your daughter or son bleeding out due to an injury in a traffic accident. She or he must have blood or die. Which bag will you choose. You have two bags. One bag is from a straight person and the other is from a gay person. It is also well known you can be infected with aids but it takes some weeks to determiner an antibody positive test.

Would you rather have a unit of blood from my vein (I am straight and do not us IV drugs} or perhaps the choice of “who in the hell gave this blood.”

Circa 1986 my neighbor died of AIDS. He was in San Francisco and had a medical emergency and was given blood. It had AIDs in it. He was 100% straight. The blood killed him some years later.

Fortunately he did not transmit it to his wife.


17 posted on 12/13/2020 11:45:26 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: Olog-hai

And we are conspiracy nuts if we don’t go along.


18 posted on 12/14/2020 12:27:37 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Olog-hai

This isn’t about science or quarantines anymore.

Homosexuals are pushing for decriminalization of KNOWINGLY spreading AIDS and not informing partners, etc.


19 posted on 12/14/2020 6:47:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Bob434

Tainted blood killed Isaac Asimov.


20 posted on 12/14/2020 6:48:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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