Homosexual men allowed to give blood but sex banned for decade

telegraph.com.uk ^ | 04/11/2011 | n/a

[massmike]

Homosexual men are to be allowed to give blood for the first time, in a move which will increase fears of transfustion patients contracting HIV.

The ban on gay men donating blood is being lifted because it was decided that the rule could be discriminatory and might breach equality legislation.

There are estimated to be 86,500 people with HIV in Britain, with a quarter unaware that they have an infection. About 42% of people infected with HIV in 2009 were homosexual men, according to the Terrence Higgins Trust, the HIV charity.

Homosexual men are also at risk of passing on other sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis.

[Adder]

Well hey...its discriminatory for heterosexuals to not have equal access to the AIDS virus.

I mean sheesh...

[spit....stupid is as stupid does...]

[hattend]

The ban on gay men donating blood is being lifted because it was decided that the rule could be discriminatory and might breach equality legislation.

I'm sure the transfusion recipient who contracts AIDS will be happy to hear that at least everything was politically correct...thank goodness!

[fwdude]

Please tell me this is just in Great Britain.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Welcome to the new Hepatitis epidemic.

[fwdude]

If they do adopt this rule, there are bound to be many donors who lie about no sexual activity for 10 years.

Exactly. Move the goalpost, and the dishonesty moves with it. For crying out loud, where did they come up with "10 years?" A completely arbitrary, convenient sounding number, which will be answered by arbitrary, convenient guessing by sodomite donors. Give or take a few years.

[Kakaze]

Do you really believe that gays are trying to spread HIV to everyone on purpose? Or is it the government that has that intent?

Since my step son is gay, as in over the top gay.........I'll comment.

Most of his friends are very descent people, they care for others BUT, there are some that are sociopathic enough to pollute the blood supply just to satisfy their collective disgust for the human race.

We had better screen all the blood.

[evilC]

In the US they will also “discriminate” against you if you have spent significant time in the UK (three months), or the rest of Europe (more than five) after 1980. This is due to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) disease, for which there is no test.
[http://www.americasblood.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=2]

The UK has similar restrictions on its blood donations; travel to or significant time in other countries (including the US) may prevent you from donating blood.

As HIV is a major risk, and homosexuality is a high risk for HIV, I see the previous ban as good sense. As usual false outrage overcomes good sense.

[T-Bird45]

This makes perfect sense, coming from a place that is already working to kill itself and its culture by acceptance of being overrun by Muslim radicals.

Non-PC comment warning!!! Do not read if easily offended!!!

I will never forgive the queer butt-monkeys for AIDS/HIV and how it has killed many innocent people. A childhood friend that had hemophilia was one of their victims. He did not deserve to die to advance the perversions practiced by the faggots.

[trisham]

According to the article, 7% continue to donate regardless.

[trisham]

When my husband was in the hospital back in the early 90's, I refused to allow the doctors to transfuse him unless it was absolutely necessary. Fortunately, it never reached that point, but it was unnerving. When I went in for surgery in 2001, I refused to allow any transfusions.

What is happening in Great Britain is an outrage, and I have no doubt that there are many in the current administration here who would love to bring this policy to this country.

[Neoliberalnot]

Here is a list of what many doctors refer to as “Lavender” diseases. They occur with extraordinary frequency among male homosexuals.
Anal Cancer
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Gonorrhea
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Syphilis
Did you also know that while homosexualists are only 1% to 2% of the population they account for over 50% of all AIDS cases?
Felching and rimming are not healthy lifestyle choices.

[ElkGroveDan]

Felching and rimming are not healthy lifestyle choices.

Not to mention "Golden Showers" and "Hot Carl." (excuse me while I to go throw up.)

[melancholy]

The ban on gay men donating blood is being lifted because it was decided that the rule could be discriminatory and might breach equality legislation.

Yep, equality here is to infect more straight people!

Homosexual men are also at risk of passing on other sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis.

This is the real 0h0m0llah doctrine and policy of the BathHouse occupant. It's trickledown STDs and AIDS.

Forget about economics.

[massmike]

John Kerry: “Let Gay Men Give Blood”

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/22740841/detail.html

[rbg81]

I had a hospital worker tell me that they still take the blood of high risk donors, but dump the blood out later. Of course, if they don’t fill out the questionnarie honestly, one would still hope they test the blood (which I believe they do).

[DBeers]

Anne Milton, the public health minister, is expected to announce the changes within weeks and she is understood to be backed by Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, and Lynne Featherstone, the Equalities Minister.

This is utter madness typical of leftists that always seek 'equality' of results. Here we see the Health Secretary and the Equalities Minister compromise the public safety of those who chose not to engage is self destructive disordered sexual activities for the sake of those who do.

Really, this is all about 'fairly' spreading the diseases around. These leftist 'feel' they know best what people can protect themselves, how people should protect themselves, and they 'feel' it not fair that only the self destructive must suffer the burden of their own choices.

[paudio]

Thank you for the reply. Giving innuendo that people (gays or government) as a group try to spread HIV to anyone is beyond what I’d consider civil. It’s such thing that gives conservatives bad names.

[DBeers]

We had better screen all the blood.

I would guess all blood is tested and all blood is screened.

The screening process applies successive independent checks to attempt to prevent any bad blood getting out.

Any that would suggest that testing will prevent all bad blood from getting out knows nothing about quality assurance and human error.

Any that suggest since there is testing that 'unfair' discriminatory screening are completely clueless as to why successive screening and testing together with random auditing is employed.

Intentionally adding potentially bad blood into the supply will result in more bad blood. It is that simple. More bad in, more bad out.

Additionally, the ban has never been about being 'gay' and has always been about unhealthy activities.

If there is ever proven a 'gay' species with immutable characteristics exists THEN I would suggest that abstaining from sex for 10 years would not make such a member of such a species any less 'gayer'.

As far as nice 'gays' versus bad 'gays' -they are human beings that come in all varieties and it is their humanity that must be respected and as well is the root of their humanity. Homosexual sex is at the root of misery and not a premises for anything good.

These 'gays' are human beings that just happen to suffer from a self destructive disorder that is abnormal. Accepting them does not mean accepting the activity which can and should be legitimately discriminated against as in blood screening.

[Vanders9]

All blood is screened before donation. In fact, being selfish about it a main plus to blood donation is that it effectively includes a minor health check.

Refusing donations from Homosexuals may have been deemed prejudicial, but refusing because they are HIV positive certainly isn't. In much the same way blood donations from people who have had malaria are refused.

[Mach9]

“These ‘gays’ are human beings that just happen to suffer from a self destructive disorder that is abnormal. Accepting them does not mean accepting the activity which can and should be legitimately discriminated against as in blood screening.”

The compassionate response. Sort of hate the disease, love the disease-ridden. Nevertheless, if what your first sentence says is true, why are we welcoming them into the mililtary services?