[fwdude]

I post this article because although the AAPP may seem to support and promote the allowance of blood donations from a group with an exponentially higher disease proneness, they unwittingly out the real facts.

I have been looking for specific numbers like this since the FDA blood donation policy was relaxed in 2015 (the data has been strangely hard to fine.) I applaud the large data set that was obtained, and the numbers so far extracted. But there is quite a bit of camouflaging being done to obscure what we really want to know.

Note that the policy addressed is the indefinite deferral of MSM (men who have sex with men) from donations, but what was expressed is ALL infectious diseases (ID's), effectively camouflaging HIV numbers among such widespread, curable diseases as Hepatitis B.

I'm going to contact the organization and request information on the specific markers for each ID.

[ModelBreaker]

LOL. I thought MSM meant Main Stream Media in the headline.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Is this infected blood kept out of the transfusion supply? How accurate are the tests for infected blood?

[petitfour]

“Reinstated” and “newly eligible”?????????????? What does that mean?

[TiGuy22]

This article is homophobic, xenophobic, and just downright racist! /sarc

[fwdude]

My email to the PR department of the AABB:

I read with interest your recent article, "Infectious Disease Rates Higher Among MSM Blood Donors Compared with Overall Blood Donor Population," and was instantly struck by the fact that although you mention HIV as the prime influencer in the deferral policy for MSM, you fail to indicate the specific rates of HIV markers in the statistics you present, instead camouflaging that marker in a single pot of a variety of infections diseases as a whole.

Is the data really so damning that you cannot publish it in full? Or is the data set not available to you? If it is available, would you please share it with me?

Thank you.

I do not expect a reply.

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: Your average TV talking head leads a sex life well-suited to a Bangkok brothel.

[bk1000]

I guess they learned nothing from the Clinton Arkansas blood scandal. Can’t risk hurting the poofter’s widdle feewings by rejecting their disease-ridden blood. Better that people die...

[JimRed]

MSM = queers.

MSM = “mainstream” media.

There’s a connection there, somewhere.

[trisham]

I avoid transfusions at all costs. I don’t care what they say.

[SamuraiScot]

Excuse me if I’m Rip van Winkle: But seriously, are homosexuals allowed to donate blood?

[Sergio]

bkmk

[wildbill]

Duh! What’s next? A government study that proves the Sun rises in the East every morning.???

[MayflowerMadam]

Well duh. Didn’t we figure that out in the ‘80s?

[Chode]

FDRQ delenda est...