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That's what I think as well, which... sort of pisses me off, because the first reason I can think for that is AIDS, and I thought we established in 1991 or something that (a) gay men /=/ AIDS and (b) AIDS /=/ gay men. Surely we've moved past biased assumptions?

Gay men are not denied from giving blood because it's assumed that they have AIDS, they're denied because they have a higher risk factor for a number of blood-borne diseases. It's the same reason why they'll defer you if you've, say, lived in the UK for more than 3 months between 1980 and 1996 (Mad Cow risk), or you got a tattoo in certain states (Hepatitis), or visited pretty much any part of sub-Saharan Africa (Malaria, but that's a temp deferral). The Red Cross takes the possibility of communicable diseases in the blood supply extremely fucking seriously, and would rather deny 100 healthy potential donors than let one person who doesn't know they're infected with something slip through the nets.

Also, the Red Cross and American Blood Centers have released a statement recommending that the FDA change the current lifetime deferral policy to a 12-month deferral (see here: http://www.aabb.org/pressroom/statements/Pages/statement061510.aspx), which would be consistent with other STD risk deferral periods (including people who have sex with people with HIV/AIDS/viral Hep). Blame this one on the FDA, not the charities.

TL;DR but since I'm legally barred from donating blood, I try to convince everyone else that they should do it instead.

and more. this all over, esp about the FDA making the rule, not the Red Cross.

Blood services in my country happily purchased US prisoners' blood, no questions asked, in the 1980s. And tens of thousands of people were infected by Hepatitis C. It has nothing to do with discrimination, and everything to do with risk factors.

I'm still so paranoid, I have given my family strict instructions no transfusions no matter what. I am a rare blood type living in a rural area, so it's unlikely they would be able to find a match for me in time, anyway, but even so. Funny thing is other than that I am anti-DNR and my advance directive instructions are Do Not Let Them Kill Me. Hoping it never comes down to a conflict between the two, with me incapacitated....

Yeah, I saw a documentary about AIDS in China somewhere (Shaanxi, I think) that just fucking wrecked me. Entire families dying of AIDS because of tainted blood, because one asshole donated when they thought they were clean. Way, way better to be safe than sorry.

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