Is It Fair to Keep Gay Men From Giving Blood?

Is it fair to intentionally or unintenionally infect people with a disease? I am not against or for--we need something better than just someones words!

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There are all sorts of people at risk for getting aids. It is certainly no longer, and hasn't been for a very long time, just a gay man's disease. We need to have better and more rigorous screening procedures. Focusing on gay men distracts us and gives us a false sense of security that the blood supply is safe. We need to focus on screening out all potential carriers of AIDS.

It's a stupid and ridiculous ban, I question the intelligence of the person/people who created it. It doesn't make sense, every sexually transmitted disease gay people can get from having unsafe sex, a straight person can get. Then there's the useless part of the ban. A person's sexual orientation is not something you can find out just by looking at them (I wonder if they ask poential male blood donors if they are gay and had sex with another man in the past decade), so it's easy to get around that ban.

If a man hasn't had gay sex in over ten years, would you actually consider him gay or is he now just like all of the rest of us heterosexual men who have been married a long time and not getting any!! ;)

It doesn't matter whether it is fair or not. Life is not fair. What is important is that the blood recipient gets HIV free blood. If a high risk group for HIV wants to give blood they should kindly accept the rejection and go volunteer in their community for something else. Perhaps they could volunteer in a nursing home. Blood giving is about life not political agendas.

No gay men should be allowed to donate blood. They cannot be trusted having safe sex, or how many other gay sexual partners they are with. They could become HIV positive after testing also. Many blacks are HIV carriers and should not donate blood. Who cares about fair to gays to donate blood. Did everyone forget all the innocent who died from blood transfusions, including children, and how much money it cost the
government for HIV drugs. England's health minister should have his head examined. Donated blood is not always properly screened.

you really are an bigot arent you!!! you aren't allowed to donate blood in england if you are gay!!! do you really think that heterosexual people can be trusted to have safe sex??!!! its people like u that keep discrimination alive!!! how do i know you didnt go out last night and have unprotected sex??!!! You need to jog on..............

Do they not screen blood donors? They do in New Zealand. They won't let me give blood now because of the medication I'm on.
Whether the donor is Gay or Straight, I think is irrelevant as long as they are healthy.

as long as its healthy blood i dont see nothing wrong with it. I forget the reason gay men were not allowed to but i think it had something to do with a dormancy period of aids, but aids has not been isolated to the gay community, if ever, since it first started makeing waves in the early 80s i think

You think about it next time you need an emergency blood transfusion. I donated blood for many years. I was able to donate blood to new born infants. After an emergency blood transfusion was done on me in mid 1990's I was notified by the blood bank that the blood put into me did not give me AIDS but put some virus in my blood making my white blood cells too powerful to donate blood anymore. Labs in N.Y.C. were not doing proper screening and this was in the 1990's.

This isn't a question about being fair or not this is a question about being safe or not. If allowing gay men to donate increases the risk of HIV or other diseases being transmitted then they should be banned. This is not discrimination it is safety. I don't think anyone wants to become sick due to a tainted blood transfusion and I don't think anyone wants their blood to make someone sick. So although it may seem unfair to some if it is safer then it needs to stand.

They are a High risk group for Aids

This is sad. If that blood could possibly save a life it shouldn't matter who it comes from. Since all blood is screened, it shouldn't be different than anyone else's. 10 years time can tell if the person is safer, but there are plenty of promiscous people everywhere.

It does matter where the blood comes from, and you can't trust many lab workers to do proper screening.

It is a fact that AIDS is a disease common to gays. They should not be allowed to donate blood.

We had homosexuals throughout history. We never heard of Aids epidemics until white homosexuals started having sex with black homosexuals. West Africans are HIV carriers, including Haitians and other Island people. "A more recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 1, 2007 dismisses the Patient Zero hypothesis and claims that AIDS transited from Africa to Haiti in 1966 and from Haiti to the United States in 1969." Read the whole article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Let them donate their blood for gays only.

That's ridiculous. Blood diseases can be found in straight people as well as gay people. That's why you're required to be fully tested before you donate.

Exactly how do they verify that the claim of not having had sex with other men for over 10 years? People do lies.

In this case, the safety of the ultimate blood recipients outweighs the the desire of the potential homosexual blood donors.

A link is not an opinion. Thanks anyway.

Blood is Blood. Do you really think the person on the gurney cares?

Besides there are LOTS of straight people with aids as well.

Wow! I didn't know about this! That is so idiotic and nonsensical! Not all gay men that are sexually active are going to have AIDS (of course). And what about extremely promiscuous straight people? No? They couldn't possibly contract AIDS, being straight and all. So let's just ban the sexually active gay men.
This. Makes. No. Sense.

Does this mean that they don't check blood for AIDS when it is donated?! I thought it was! Instead they impose frivolous and discriminatory laws? I'm very concerned about this.

The technology is there to help screen the blood for diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The fact that they're not letting gay men donate blood is totally and completely discriminatory. Yet gay women, more commonly known as lesbians, can donate blood without worrying about such discrimination.

Gay's arent the only people with blood disorders everyone shoud be able to give, the blood banks need it very bad. Each one should be tested though for problems before giving to someone else..Not only hiv but lupis can also be passed with blood.

Stupidly hit the wrong answer, meant to hit no. Can't figure out how to change it now. Anyone can claim not to be gay or claim not to have slept with someone for however long. There are extremely accurate & quick HIV tests now & they should be what determines who donates, not whether or not someone is gay.

what does 'fairness' have to do with a lifestyle that poses a higher risk of spreading a transmissible disease?
what next? get a tattoo and donate blood? take intravenous drugs and donate blood?

my god, this is a dumb decision.

what of the unlucky individuals that come down with diseases on top of the condition that put them in the market for a transfusion?

a) Straight people can have AIDS.

b) You can't test for gayness.

But if you eliminate the high risk people then you don't waste time & Money when someone else could have been sitting in that chair who was not high risk. Should they also have a 12 month waiting period on people who just got Tattoo's again a high risk group for aids. How about Drug users again High risk. Yes, straight people can have aids but there not in a high risk unless they fall into a High risk area. Your argument is void on the grounds of stupidity.

Why is a gay person "high risk"?

SEXUAL Practices. They even ask straights if they are involved in those same practices. So know is not discrimination against Gays it's screening out the High risk people.

Then you would allow a celibate gay man to give blood?

If there is such. But the average gay has 5 to 7 different partners which makes them high risk. Just as a straight person who would have 5-7 partners they are also screened as high risk.

So you're saying that everyone who's had 5 sexual partners, gay or straight, should be prohibited from giving blood, but you assume all gay people fall into that category?