Did you know that there is a lifetime ban on Gay Men donating blood and should it be lifted?

i'm too lazy to go to that website. but no, i was not aware and i can't possibly believe it. are blood donation centers even allowed to ask for your sexual orientation? blood's blood, they should be happy they're getting it.

They've now changed it, or are about to, to men who have had sex with other men within the last 12 months instead of a lifetime ban. Which is still wrong considering the ban was put in place when HIV and AIDS were a much bigger threat during the 80s, but it's getting there. As far as I understand it, it's because to test HIV you need to have been infected over a certain time ago, a week or two, and so even though they test any blood before they use it they can't detect infection that happened recently. Which is why prostitutes and people who have shared needles can't donate either.

But what about gay men who have always used condoms? They can't donate yet some sluts who have never used them in their lives and slept around can just because they are heterosexual. Two gay men who were virgins when they met and have been totally safe all their lives and never been exposed to any risk still can't donate, but a girl who has slpet with 200 men can, no questions asked! So I think the ban should be lifted and people given different critieria that reflects their life and attitudes towards sex and protection, rather than just assuming gays are more at risk than straights, which just isn't sensible in this day and age. Also with the massive need for blood how can they be so dismissive of what could be perfectly good blood just for the sake of a risk that is present in everyone?

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It should be lifted. Blood is tested before it is used and straight people who sleep around without condoms are as much a risk as a gay guy.

My own personal view, if I was involved in an accident and needed blood to survive, I would rather take the risk of having to take medication for the rest of my life and possibly dying younger than die immediately and not be there for my kids. I wouldn't care who gave the blood - if it was my only chance of any survival.

jointly as i'm all in want of gay superb to marry and serve brazenly interior the protection stress, I strongly have faith that to even talk putting those that receive blood at over 500% greater danger to be uncovered to HIV is fully irresponsible. the easy actuality is that HIV is 60 circumstances extra straightforward in gay adult adult males then the well-known inhabitants. by capacity of suggesting a strengthen of the ban the gay 2nd is fully irresponsible and putting it self years back!

Ok there was a ban and no I wasn't aware of it. The ban was put in place for good reasons.

Should it be lifted? There are surely pros and cons to this decision.

Regardless of ones opinion the authorities in the UK who do make such decisions have chosen to lift said ban.

This is one more example of society becoming tolerant of a lifestyle that 60 years ago was considered shameful and sinful.

It just goes to prove if you continue to push an agenda regardless of whose it is, eventually people will get tired and give in just to shut the other side up.

The LIFETIME part should definitely be lifted. It makes little sense that people who have sex with prostitutes have only a temporary ban but not men who have sex with men. The restriction was put on the 80s and now with blood testing and whatnot the permanent deferral is unnecessary.

On a side note, it's not "gay men" per se that are permanently deferred. It's " men who have sex with men" and this distinction matters (e.g. virgin gay teen males are not restricted).

This is a difficult one. Should anti prejudice laws trump public safety? Personally I'd rather some extra safety buffers, than worry about insulting a group of people, especially as increases in HIV are occurring for gay men - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12817564. Maybe the ban should extend to Africans too?

This shouldn't be an argument about double standards, or some sort of fascism. Safety is paramount.

statistically homosexual men are more likely to carry HIV unfortunately. So I think that political correctness should take a back seat on this issue. But i dont understand why blood cant be tested for these things.

these days the blood bank is lucky to be half full, so might as well fill it up.

The ban was put in place because haemophilliacs (bleeders) who need regular transfusions were coming down with AIDs, the ban should stay in place!

No prejudice intended just public safety!