Great news that significantly increases the donor base. I presume any of the old concerns they had with increased risk due to sexual orientation have now been disproved
Fantastic news. I hope that it increases the donor base.
More blood donations are always needed.
My understanding is that the theory behind this was that there is a significant statistically higher risk of infections from Man on man sexual activity.
Have those statistics changed? Or is there just higher level of testing and screening on blood these days?
RTE tweeted this and most of the replies are horrific.
There’s so many hateful Irish twitter users, why are they all homophobic, xenophobic, anti immigration and anti vax like a hivemind of gobshites.
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Great news that significantly increases the donor base. I presume any of the old concerns they had with increased risk due to sexual orientation have now been disproved
Fantastic news. I hope that it increases the donor base.
More blood donations are always needed.
My understanding is that the theory behind this was that there is a significant statistically higher risk of infections from Man on man sexual activity.
Have those statistics changed? Or is there just higher level of testing and screening on blood these days?
RTE tweeted this and most of the replies are horrific.
There’s so many hateful Irish twitter users, why are they all homophobic, xenophobic, anti immigration and anti vax like a hivemind of gobshites.
Is American media to blame?