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everyone who has sex is at risk for HIV and currently the rates for AA women are raising the quickest...this is ridiculous to ban all MSM blood...and still ridiculous to suggest abstaining from sex for one year or five years!
I agree that the ban has gone on long enough. It was unfair in the first place and to have lasted so long is completely unrealistic and prejudicial.
I have been a blood donor for the last 21 years right up until this past September when I was diagnosed HIV+ after that donation. I am a straight, married man. Obviously I can no longer donate but my wife was recently banned from donating at a blood drive at our kids school after filing out that questionaire. She is negative and posses no threat to the blood supply. We need to educate the country again about HIV/AIDS and have this ban on MSM lifted. All the blood gets tested anyway!!!
I agree. The outright, lifetime ban in silly. Test the blood, people! Excluding those most at risk (if indeed we are) does not ensure safety.
deb
Yes I believe they should continue to ban MSM's from donating blood especially since their is a recent increase in the number of newly HIV infection in this group of individual, according to the latest CDC finding. The benefit of this is One less innocent person infected with this dreadful disease.
March 18, 2010 • Chester