The Gay Blood Ban: Is It Really Necessary?
The Gay Blood Ban: Is it Really Necessary?
Introduction
For this paper, I attended a Lunch-n-Learn seminar entitled "Be Negative: A Program on HIV/AIDS" held at KSU on February 3, 2004. During the presentation, the speaker revealed that, as a gay man, he is forever prohibited from donating blood. As such, I have chosen to develop a plan of action that will assist in lifting the gay blood ban.
After some research, I learned that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the organization responsible for making the laws that prohibit gay men from donating blood. In fact, the law states that any man who has had sex with another man since 1977, even once, is banned from giving blood. Ironically, a heterosexual man can have unprotected anal sex with a female prostitute, and then donate blood twelve months later. However, a gay man in a monogamous relationship who practices safe sex is forever banned from donating his blood.
The FDA's policy first originated in the......
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