View Full Version : Who is excluded from giving blood?
alien77
28-10-2009, 12:45 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8327650.stm
"A lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men from giving blood is under review, following calls from campaigners that the policy is unfair and misplaced"
hollo
28-10-2009, 01:46 AM
if i was dying and the only way to live was to swap my blood with a gay mans
(no puns) i would - wouldnt you!?
vetis
28-10-2009, 03:55 AM
Its not because they are gay its because over 60% of HIV/AIDS cases are gay men and im sure some of the other 40% are women who slept with men who slept with men and the men who then slept with these women. If it takes out over 60% of the aids riddled population from donating it seems a decent move to me.
I know it can never be 100% safe even with screening but anything to reduce the risk can only be good.
decim
28-10-2009, 04:02 AM
Isn't blood typing racist?
Shouldn't we all have like equal blood, a universal blood?
Feckin fascists again!!
nicolaj
28-10-2009, 08:17 AM
My cousin had haemophilia he died from a bad batch of blood..in the 80's
size_of_light
28-10-2009, 08:23 AM
Don't they run tests on donated blood to determine if it's infected with anything before shooting it up into other people?
Presumably they do...though I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
nicolaj
28-10-2009, 08:45 AM
Don't they run tests on donated blood to determine if it's infected with anything before shooting it up into other people?
Presumably they do...though I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
in the 80's they didn't quite a lot got infected with it here in england.
two of my cousins received bad blood..one is still alive though..in his 30's now..was a massive law suit.
Ian2day
28-10-2009, 09:31 AM
Don't they run tests on donated blood to determine if it's infected with anything before shooting it up into other people?
Presumably they do...though I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Do you really trust the labs to get it correct all of the time? Its just another eugenics move by the big pharma industry to create more work for itself. They are not interested in preventing illness as then they wont be needed. They want us all getting sick. Prevention is a swear word to them.
alien77
28-10-2009, 05:12 PM
The cases of hiv amoungst gay men is far higher...
As is the case from certain areas of Africa..
There is nothing wrong with taking extra preventative measures....
To prevent people being infected...during Blood transfusion
This article is another example of political correctness, which serves no positive purpose....
pureheart
28-10-2009, 05:28 PM
Maybe the Jehovah Witnesses know something that we don't. :confused:
branjo
28-10-2009, 05:56 PM
Blood donations have probably been the base resource for Bio weaponry. As well as providing blood for the people who need it, it's an untapped resource for anyone wishing to test anything on the population, good or bad.
flickflack
28-10-2009, 08:41 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8327650.stm
"A lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men from giving blood is under review, following calls from campaigners that the policy is unfair and misplaced"
If this is unfair, then so is the consideration to ban people with tattoos from giving blood. I haven't researched it much, but I seem to recall that tattooed and/or pierced people are in danger of loosing their right to become an blood donor. Tattoos = risk of infections, etc.
justawake
28-10-2009, 10:03 PM
I think it's recently tatooed / pierced that can't give blood.
I think the problem with HIV testing a blood donation is that it can take up to six months after infection for HIV to show up in a test. This means that if the person who donated the blood has recently contracted HIV, it may not show up in the test yet, and so it is still possible in this day and age to catch HIV from a blood transfusion.
boy better know
28-10-2009, 11:29 PM
The cases of hiv amoungst gay men is far higher...
As is the case from certain areas of Africa..
There is nothing wrong with taking extra preventative measures....
To prevent people being infected...during Blood transfusion
This article is another example of political correctness, which serves no positive purpose....
In Scotland most HIV/AIDS sufferers caught it from sharing needles, not gay activity.
hoverfly
28-10-2009, 11:38 PM
Were you aware that people with ME are not allowed to give blood !
Yes, these so-called work-shy Yuppies.
Now, if the government, in cahoots with satanic psychologists, insist that M.E.(they changed the name to CFS) is not a real bio-medical illness, then why won't they allow the use of blood from M.E. patients ?
Something to consider ?
On 8th October it was announced in 'Science' journal, that there is a high correlation between a newly discovered retro-virus in humans, and ME/CFS.
http://www.wpinstitute.org/xmrv/docs/wpi_pressrel_100809.pdf