Well here in the uk it's not only being gay.. it's also, having a tattoo, or a piercing.... Of course it's quite ridiculous, but as one guy of the NHS here told me... It's just prevention, there are diseases other than HIV infection that can be transferred... like all the heps and stuff.. all of this takes a LONG time to detect (actually HIV testsrequire, as I've been told) to repeat the test after 4 months or so).
And... always from a uk perspective, i was told that except for the really rare groups, the estimated TTL of blood is like 4 weeks, and after that, the blood is trashed. The other rare groups are kept frozen or whatever they do to keep it healthy... but the common groups are just trashed.
What I don;t see very clearly is the discrimination part.. I mean.. of course there are gay people with AIDS , any of the hepatitis, or other STDs, but there are as many or more straight people having the same issues, but these latters's screening is done on a laboratory, not on a questionnaire... why?
Why can't I be screened and banned after doing lots of tests? why don't they do some kind of Donor Exam? a thorough exam of your blood, a thorough hematoanalysis, so they know that you are on the safe side?
And then, we hear there aren't many people giving blood... pfffff...
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:18 am (UTC)Of course it's quite ridiculous, but as one guy of the NHS here told me... It's just prevention, there are diseases other than HIV infection that can be transferred... like all the heps and stuff.. all of this takes a LONG time to detect (actually HIV testsrequire, as I've been told) to repeat the test after 4 months or so).
And... always from a uk perspective, i was told that except for the really rare groups, the estimated TTL of blood is like 4 weeks, and after that, the blood is trashed. The other rare groups are kept frozen or whatever they do to keep it healthy... but the common groups are just trashed.
What I don;t see very clearly is the discrimination part.. I mean.. of course there are gay people with AIDS , any of the hepatitis, or other STDs, but there are as many or more straight people having the same issues, but these latters's screening is done on a laboratory, not on a questionnaire... why?
Why can't I be screened and banned after doing lots of tests? why don't they do some kind of Donor Exam? a thorough exam of your blood, a thorough hematoanalysis, so they know that you are on the safe side?
And then, we hear there aren't many people giving blood... pfffff...