Posted on 08/07/2023 1:58:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Other screening questions will remain the same -- for everyone. Potential donors will be asked about risk factors including sexual activity -- whether they have had sexual contact with a new partner in the past three months or had anal sex, which would require them to wait three months before donating.
The Red Cross said the decision is supported by decades of data collection and assessments, including the ADVANCE study, which was funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA approved new rules for blood donation in May that eliminated waiting periods on the basis of sexual orientation and brings the United States in line with countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.
The study found that blood donor history questions could identify sexually active gay or bisexual men who had "lower-risk behaviors" that would be eligible to donate.
FDA issues new rules, makes it easier for gay, bisexual men to donate blood "There's so much in the world that you can't help with, and you sometimes have to see people going through difficult times, but something like giving blood feels like something so small that you can do, and it means a lot to me that I'll be able to do that again," Andrew Goldstein, a cancer researcher from Los Angeles, said in a statement.
In the ADVANCE study, more than 66% of gay or bisexual men reported only one sexual partner and no anal sex. Sixty-nine percent reported no new partners or anal sex in the past three months.
According to the Red Cross, every 2 seconds someone in the United States needs blood and or platelets. The average blood cell transfusion is about three units of red blood cells, and about 29,000 units are needed every day. A car accident can require a person to receive as many as 100 units of blood.
"The Red Cross celebrates this historic move as significant progress and remains committed to achieving an inclusive blood donation process that treats all potential donors with equality and respect while maintaining the safety of the blood supply," the Red Cross said in a statement.
Or those who have had Hepatitis A still can’t donate blood.
Yeah! Inclusive blood donors and STDs!
Can't imagine what could possibly go wrong. Or ever accepting a blood transfusion ever again.
Still, it makes the sexually broken happy.
Sounds like a good way to catch aids and fagpox
Lies.
I know I wont be accepting any blood transfusions. I will only take artificial blood.
So now they want to endanger us with tainted blood. If that isn’t a justification for secession then I don’t know what is.
Yep. Exactly. I can’t donate because they think I’m a risk of CJD (Mad Cow Disease).
Paradox. When the WEF, UN, and the WHO, are promoting the elimination of 2/3 the planet, and America has a hundred or so agencies like the NIH, AMA, and CDC, that need rebranding and repurposing in order to accelerate that elimination instead of stop it.
Reminds me of those recent pharmaceutical commercials touting a medication that results in an ‘undetectable’ AIDS virus. The actors in the commercials seem to be celebrating that they can once again go out dating. Just because, today, we do not have the ability to detect the infection, does not mean that something is not still present.
Now, if you want to really have a true scientific study of something ‘undetectable’ try to find a conscience in many of the leftists these days.
The name of the disease may have been changed but the demographic that first gave the world GRID hasn’t.
Just another way to reduce the population.
What could go wrong, huh? My dad has that rare blood type,
A-B negative. He used to donate all the time. Then he got hepatitis, idk how many years ago from a tattoo. Probably at least 40 yrs ago.....could be 50 yrs ago by now with no lingering health affects. He can no longer donate blood due to that. But lets let the gay guys donate all they want, huh? smh
Those “Undectable” commercials really make me shake my head. What a world.
This is INSANE . !
When I rotated out of the Army in ‘67, I had returned from Korea just a month before and I couldn’t donate for TWO YEARS, just because I was in a foreign nation and an ASIAN one at that !
Bone smugglers should prefer their own supply.
Operation Depopulation proceeds according to plan.
Who’s going to verify if a f@990t is telling the truth ?
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