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Talk about giving them a finger... While always in favor of a solution close to the current guidelines, I've warned that relaxing the guidelines will lead to this politically correct, practically hazardous offensive in the gay community. I fear this activism will lead to more gays donating blood while lying and inevitably infecting recipients with HIV at worst. In a just world everyone propagating this further lift like Lambda Legal should be forced to pay compensation to the victims.
What about men who have had sex with a female prostitute during the past year? What about women who have sex with a man during the past year? What about a woman who has sex with her husband, who unbeknownst to her goes out and has sex with men - in essence, she is having sex with all of these same men. Why does this policy specifically target gay men? Again, the FDA is attempting to make HIV a gay disease. It sends a message that there are no other at-risk behaviors. It's irresponsible.
Wow. Discrimination at its finest! I'm not sure if I am outraged at that or the total apparent lack of actual security of donated blood. After all if they have to ban someone who has admitted openly to having gay sex for a, what they believe to be, safer blood supply, then what about all of the other people that will just lie about risky behavior? Either they can test it and it is safe or they can't and it's not. Who you have sex with shouldn't matter because oral surveys are bunk anyway.
Outrageous that the sexual ban is still included. Everyone having sex is at risk, so why is homosexuality still a problem? Grow up CDC!
dbeck
So, did the CDC suddenly wake up in 1982??? What a great way to promote stigma, do they even read their own pamphlets??? Shameful.
December 28, 2015 • Texas