dịch sang tiếng việt giùm vớiGay Community Calls for End to US Policy Banning Blood Donations Members of the gay community in the U.S. are calling for the lifting of a federal ban on blood donations by gay.After this weeks shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, thousands of homosexuals lined up to donate blood to survivors. However, they were turned away because of U.S. government rules that prohibit gay men from giving blood. In the wake of the shootings, the policy is causing anger...
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dịch sang tiếng việt giùm vớiGay Community Calls for End to US Policy Banning Blood Donations
Members of the gay community in the U.S. are calling for the lifting of a federal ban on blood donations by gay.
After this week's shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, thousands of homosexuals lined up to donate blood to survivors. However, they were turned away because of U.S. government rules that prohibit gay men from giving blood.
In the wake of the shootings, the policy is causing anger and outrage among gays.
The policy was put in place in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic, and it barred gay and bisexual men from donating blood out of fear that they were at high risk of being HIV-positive and could contaminate the blood supply.
Public health advocates, who argued for lifting the blood donation ban last year, say the policy does not keep pace with some recent scientific developments to safeguard the blood supply against HIV.
Sean Cahill, director of health policy research at the Fenway Institute in Boston, said the revised policy is still unfair.
According to Cahill, the so-called nucleic acid test is now available to detect the presence of HIV in a pint of blood in less than two weeks, compared with the months it used to take. The test is performed on all blood samples to make sure they don't contain the virus.
