Posted on 12/21/2015 12:02:09 PM PST by xzins
The Food and Drug Administration has lifted the ban on blood donations from men who have engaged in sexual relations with another man. Now, in order to donate blood, a man will have had to have been abstinent for the period of one year prior to donation.
This new policy is similar to the deferral period for a woman who has engaged in sexual activity with a man who had previously sexual activity with another man, or for someone who has traveled to a country where malaria is prevalent.
The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on Monday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year. Under previous rules, men who have had sex with men are banned from donating indefinitely.
“Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the best available scientific evidence, at this point in time, relevant to the U.S. population. We will continue to actively conduct research in this area and further revise our policies as new data emerge," Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a statement Monday.
The move partially rolls back a 1983 ban that has since been described as medically unwarranted. Efforts to eliminate that ban, which have crawled forward under the Obama administration, mark the biggest step in a decades-old debate on whether gay and bisexual men, who are at a higher risk for HIV/AIDS, can safely donate blood.
Yep. Count on it.
Can the FDA be sued if one get HIV as a result of a change in this policy
Probably not- they probably have written out a clause which exempts themselves from any legal issues
[[FDA Lifts Ban on Blood Donations from Men Who Have Had Sex with Men]]
apparently the government doesn’t think the spread of aids is happening fast enough
But Elton John hugged him, so it made all the repulsive, self-debasing, sickening behavior homosexuals engage be magically forgotten, as the media put all of us in the same boat.
I should start a blood bank and charge a premium for “gay free” blood.
Though I suppose that would probably run afoul of some tyrannical bureaucratic rule nowadays, wouldn’t it?
I was a steady ARC donor for 15 years ending ~1995. The med-techs had developed a blood test for HIV by the mid-1980s, and it has supposedly been improved since then. The joke back then was that those people who were at risk for contracting HIV could go donate blood at the ARC and get a free HIV test at the same time.
By 1995 the ARC had already implemented a long questionnaire for prospective donors to serve as a self-report screening tool. I have searched the ARC sites as recently as 1 year ago and could find no mention of what the exact testing policy was for HIV or other disease agents in donated blood.
My impression is that the biggest blood donor agencies in the U.S. are the ARC, AHA, and blood centers sponsored by hospitals.
How would you prove someone is not gay?
What we should have — and maybe we do — is a strict testing protocol for every pint of blood received. It will raise costs, but it is the only answer.
Reject blood at the level of the blood collection before it gets to a blood bank.
Screening is nice, but they’ve always been able to lie.
Notice that this is “not enough” for the degenerates. They are hell bound to make “AIDS everyone’s problem.”
see #67
“He was finally cured of it in Sept of this year.”
My lord,40 years.
Was it a new medication or a combination of older ones?
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I was there from 1979-1982 Kirch-Goens!
not a good idea
Since queers by definition are coprophiliacs, I challenge anyone to find one that is celebate for a month with the exception of those that are bedridden with AIDS. This move by the FDA is a significant public health risk that has been subjugated to queer politics. I have donated my last pint of blood except to friends and relatives in need.
We should set up a freeper network for those needing blood. I am A+ a pretty common type.
So a male hooker can give you their blood, BUT I CANNOT. I can’t save your life with my O negative universal donor blood, because - GASP - I lived in Europe in the late 1980s which is only a few countries away from where some cows got mad cow disease, even though Switzerland didn’t import beef from The UK.
How does that make sense? If I were a lesbian, would my blood be better? Clearly, homosexuality trumps just about everything else and makes humans into Angels.
Superbug....the grossly promiscuous and drug consuming homosexual community is ACTUALLY a biological environment in which bacteria and viruses (virii?) can develop immunities and breed newer immune generations, rinse and repeat. There’s no telling really, whether some otherwise non-dangerous bug in them has changed to where it would start a huge epidemic in those not in that superbug environment. Am I rambling or making sense?””
The multi drug resistant TB came out of the queer community along with several strains of drug resistant syphilis and gonorrhea. Nevertheless the typhoid Larrys are going to have their way foisted on the normal population segment.
This country has gone insane. What sane society would place political correctness over its people’s health and safety? How could anyone support this after seeing the statistics for AIDS and other VDs among homosexual men? We must not discriminate even if it means people die because it. Pure insanity.
“I should start a blood bank and charge a premium for “gay free†blood.”
I was just thinking the same thing. The Red Cross will fall in line. If you set up a competing entity where you only select blood from healthy folks, there would be a market for it. Roll the dice on the diseased red cross blood, or pay more for quality control.
What would you pick if you needed it?
Does this mean that Obama can now donate blood?
Curious minds want to know.
Word came down that the list of diseases considered as ineligibilities on the immigrant medical screening would no longer include HIV. Got syphilis? - you don't get in. TB? - You don't get in. But HIV? No problem. - here's your visa.
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