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- yohnstoppable, on 04/10/2008, -4/+57I loved it back in high school when the blood donor people would come to our school. You get out of class, get free juice and cookies, and get to watch the pansies pass out. Good times
Oh, and you get to help people or something - thinkart, on 04/10/2008, -0/+23do you have any idea how many diseases go around prisons? most people who have been incarcerated, return to the world filled with things like hepatitis, aids, etc...(and no not just because of prison sex, although im sure thats where it starts).
- mapez, on 04/10/2008, -1/+23I was hoping for something strange and archaic. Similar to how gay men in Canada cannot donate organs..
- dtele, on 04/10/2008, -1/+21I think being a vampire would disqualify you...
- NoCt1, on 04/10/2008, -0/+17and then after a month or two you find out how many people have an std. that was always fun also.
- legoalert33, on 04/10/2008, -0/+17If you passed out you got to go home for the rest of the day.
- hauntedchippy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+16If you are a homosexual man who has engaged in oral or anal sex you are unable to donate blood
- sjors, on 04/10/2008, -0/+15In Holland you disqualify by being Gay. Even if you have a relation with a single partner.
- yooper1019, on 04/10/2008, -0/+14I was put on a national 'can not donate' list for having a false-positive test when giving plasma. It was total B.S. and the plasma center made me walk through life for a week thinking I might be HIV positive! The company is Biolife and they are the devil. They finally told me nothing was wrong and it was a testing error but that I could never donate again. It's so they don't have to spend extra money in case I have more false-positive tests. They put me through hell!
- jtrost, on 04/10/2008, -1/+15Strange that it doesn't say anything about unprotected sex. That seems like an obvious one.
- DarkYang, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13I don't know about anywhere else in the U.S., but in Florida gay men or women cannot give blood.
- kd36, on 04/10/2008, -0/+12Or maybe because sometime people have unprotected sex for stuff like having babies..
Just because you have unprotected sex doesn't mean you have an STD. - bosssmiley, on 04/10/2008, -0/+11The "no prisoners" rule could be due to the prevalence of drug use among inmates, or (less likely) it could be the negative associations of 'farming' prisoners for their blood...
- lolipopfailure, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10looks like we found someone who passed out
- macbookpromat, on 04/10/2008, -1/+10The truth is that's exactly what they're implying.
- jhourcle, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8This list is woefully incomplete. Here's the Red Cross's list:
http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/0,1082,0_5 ...
(I'm inelligible for having spent more than 6 months 'associated' with a military base in the Netherlands in the 1980s.) - theheights, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8Even a false positive test for some diseases will disqualify you. A couple weeks after I donated, I got a letter that said "your blood tested positive for Hepatitis B." Lower in the letter it said that they re-tested it with a more complex/accurate test and found that my blood was fine.
They still made me wait 6 months to donate, and they even re-tested my blood before they allowed me back in. - TehChix0r, on 04/10/2008, -0/+7I donate regularly and they always ask something like "Have you had sex with a man who has ever had sex with another man". Or "Have you lived with someone diagnosed with HIV?" They don't specifically ask about unprotected sex because they test for the serious STDs before your donated blood is ever used (like hepatitis or HIV/AIDS).
- KraftDinner101, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6I thought you couldn't give blood until a couple years after getting a tattoo as well.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -2/+8So is your face.
- jamshid, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Men who have had sex with men (safe or not, anal or not) are still banned in the US. There has been talk of changing that rule, but it looks like that was rejected. Lots of Q&A at http://www.fda.gov/cber/faq/msmdonor.htm. They seem to say that, yeah it's not foolproof (since hets can get it), but they're not trying to be discriminatory, it's all about the stats.
What is FDA's policy on blood donations from men who have sex with other men (MSM)?
Men who have had sex with other men, at any time since 1977 (the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States) are currently deferred as blood donors. This is because MSM are, as a group, at increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and certain other infections that can be transmitted by transfusion.
The policy is not unique to the United States. Many European countries have recently reexamined both the science and ethics of the lifetime MSM deferral, and have retained it (See the transcript of the "FDA Workshop on Behavior-Based Donor Deferrals in the NAT Era" at http://www.fda.gov/cber/minutes/nat030806t.htm#7 for further information.). This decision is also consistent with the prevailing interpretation of the European Union Directive 2004/33/EC article 2.1 on donor deferrals. - radicalroles, on 04/10/2008, -1/+6In the United States, any man who has ever had sexual relations with another man can not give blood. Until 2 years ago, this was not contested. I have boycotted giving blood until they fix this homophobic "bad blood" practice. Researchers, practitioners, they have found that being gay means nothing about your blood. HIV/AIDS is so attached to gay men, that we can't even fathom that this is discrimination.
- kierucom, on 04/10/2008, -1/+6If I recall correctly the form does not limit it to homosexuals, rather to just men who have engaged in anal sex with other men past 1980. I only nitpick because there are large groups of men who do engage in such activities without considering themselves homosexual; and otherwise living quite heterosexual lives. "Any port in a storm" I guess.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -2/+7By that logic, I'm straight, because I've had a female partner, and didn't find it particularly disgusting. Pssh, I'm a ***** through and through.
- jjed824, on 04/10/2008, -0/+5You'd think that a blood donation would be good for people with high blood pressure. Would it not lower the pressure? (I'm speaking from a physics perspective not a biology perspective. Somebody please correct me)
- ChzPlz, on 04/10/2008, -0/+5Canada too
- mithrasinvictus, on 04/10/2008, -1/+6simple solution: "Did you have unprotected sex with anyone other than a regular partner?"
- chililili, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4People are also forgetign the fact that prisoners also tend to get prison tattoos which are not made in hygienical spaces and as a result contaminate their blood.
- yohnstoppable, on 04/10/2008, -2/+6Man up and eat more salt, pansy.
- ArmandoM, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4then it would not be "a" regular partner. it would be "numerous" regular partners.
- yooper1019, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4One word: hepatitis
- ohcoaster, on 04/10/2008, -1/+5dood, people don't faint because they're pansies, they faint from the massive drop in blood pressure. people who have low blood pressure or are smaller in size are more susceptible to fainting after donating.
- brstilson, on 04/10/2008, -2/+6Actually prison = unprotected man sex with multiple anonymous partners who tend to be murderers, rapists, and drug addicts = a cornucopia of blood-borne diseases including HIV, Hepatitis, Gonorrhea, Syphillis, and Herpes
- jordanmac, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4huh? i've always considered anyone who has sex with a man who is not a woman to be gay...not saying there's anything terrible about being gay, but gay sex pretty much qualifies you as gay in my book
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -3/+6Yeah it is pretty ***** up. Funny how religious nut jobs still rule the country in 2008.
- mrcpu, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3But you can donate if its been over a year since you were in jail!
- wuwho, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3That is not true at all. I am AB+ as well, and while your blood can only be used by people with the same blood type, no blood donation centre is going to refuse you on that basis alone.
If you really want to help, donate your plasma. AB+ plasma is the universal donor in terms of plasma transfusions because of the fact that there's no A or B antibodies present in AB+ blood. The best part of plasma donation, also, is that they pay you to do it.
Source in case you care: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type#Plasma_com ... - justjoehere, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4Until all groups have the same risk of infection as those "excluded" there will continue to be exclusions in the name of safety. It's not bad blood practice it is simple statistical risk avoidance.
- mllawso, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4They asked me "Have you ever had sexual intercourse with another man after 1977."
One 20 year old in front of me responded: "Yes, in 1976." It took the nurse a few seconds to figure out that was impossible. - verkon, on 04/10/2008, -2/+5who the hell can take it in the behind and consider themselves hetero?
- luchid, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4Larry Craig? Mark Foley? Every single homophobe?
- RockSlice, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3I love the "In some parts of the world, cattle can get an infectious, fatal brain disease called Mad Cow Disease"
Never mind the fact that the US has had the dangerous feeding techniques for a long time (and still does), or the fact that BSE has been found in US cows, or the fact that as opposed to the EU, the US does not slaughter the entire herd that BSE was found in. (plus they don't look as hard)
US beef is safe. The govt says so. Who are we to question them? (end sarcasm) - justjoehere, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3Statistically defined risk groups.
- lpmiller, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3it's not really a complete list. For instance, some blood types can give a false positive for certain illnesses, which disqualify you even if you do not in fact have that illness. In my case, I have a clotting disorder, so I'm disqualified.
- statc, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3I tried to give blood in high school but they wouldn't take it because I was born in Romania around the time of Chernobyl. You'd think after 17 years, if I was to become a mutant, I would have. Oh well, at least I still got cookies and a shirt.
- tdogg241, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3Then you would be at high risk for STD exposure. Even if you maintain relationships with only those 50 people, there's no guaranteeing they'll extend you the same courtesy.
- blakeage, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Does that include having been bit within a 24 hour time period? /just checking
- Julirocks, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2You can't be gay, in the US, and donate blood. I know this because when donating I said I was lesbian, but that's okay. (This also applied to bisexual males.) You also need high enough iron levels. I was at first rejected because my iron levels were low, but I asked for a second test from another nurse and they were higher then the minimum.
So a note to anyone; make sure you warm your hands before you get your iron count checked. - etandrib, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2I lived in Portugal for 2 years during the mad cow disease scare and I'm disqualified. Of course maybe I do have Mad Cow disease and it is just in submission. :-)
- tlgjames, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Except going to Qatar does not disqualify you and you still get the anthrax shot. Also you can get the anthrax shots and never go and you're not disqualified.
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