The Ban on Gay Blood Donors

In 1983, when having sex with other men since 1977, the US Food and Drug Administration banned homosexual donation (Thrasher). Some activists think that the ban should be abolished as the ban is very strict. Hopefully anyone in the country can donate blood, but homosexuals have a high risk of certain diseases such as HIV / AIDS. This increased risk is not wise to rule out this prohibition. As Mark Skinner mentioned in his article, "Science should decide policy", "Donors are based on science, not being postponed to personal judgment."

The fundamental cause of the forbiddance of spermatozoa is "gay dyspepsia", which was the first AIDS case (more or less) found in homosexual men in the early 1980s, and recently transfused It began with people. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to exclude men who have sex with other men throughout their lifetime beyond the gathering of blood donors. Most sperm banks also use this logic to reject homosexual donors. But semen has never submitted to the same rules as blood, so the ban has never been officially announced. Instead, the US Food and Drug Administration has decided to combine semen with other tissues (such as "bone, vein, corneal ligament") when announcing new guidelines for companies participating in donations in 2005 Did. Organization of people who have sex with men. Another man in the past 5 years

The New York Times article highlights that the FDA has reaffirmed its position that it prohibits homosexual men as donors of life. It has been on since the 1980's. AIDS epidemics and poor quality of testing make this policy meaningful from a public health standpoint, but the harsh nature of this decision is less obvious today. In March 2006, the Red Cross, the International Blood Association AABB and the American Blood Center proposed a one - year lifetime ban after sexual contact between men and men. A new and improved test can detect HIV positive donors within 10 to 21 days after infection, which makes lifelong bans unnecessary and blood type tissue tells FD A.

Since AIDS began in the 1970s, we have banned homosexuals and bisexual donation in many countries including the United States. Since then, the epidemic of AIDS has gradually declined, but the advancement of AIDS technology is rapidly rising. Some people argue that this ban is based on the American Medical Association, the Red Cross and the American Blood Center bad science, but the American policy has hardly changed. If the prohibition is lifted, 360,600 men can donate 615,300 pints of blood a year and increase US blood supply from 2% to 4%. Bans are not only discriminatory, but countries such as Italy and Argentina use the concept of cultural communication to potentially save millions of lives.