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The problem isn't with the fact that they turn down gay men. The problem is that they turn down gay men while accepting people who have regularly exposed thems
by aplusbi 15y ago
The problem isn't with the fact that they turn down gay men. The problem is that they turn down gay men while accepting people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV, as long as they haven't done that within the past 12 months.
- eridius 15y agoIn case you haven't seen it, mpk has a response[1] which brings up a point I've never seen made before: > All blood gets tested and though false negatives are still possible, most infections are statistically close enough to 100% detectable after 6 months. This kind makes irrelevant all the outrage over them accepting blood from donors who have had wildly unsafe sex over 12 months ago. At this point it's only a matter of risk management surrounding the possibility of recent infection. You may say that in that case, it shouldn't matter if you had a same-gender sexual encounter 30 years ago, but this really just boils down to statistics, and having a same-gender sexual encounter puts you in an entirely different statistical category than people who restrict themselves to strictly heterosexual encounters. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3240432 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3240432