The content of the “history of blood donor” form, based on which until today sexual orientation was linked to whether a person can donate blood, is changing.
More specifically, according to a decision of the Ministry of Health, the ” need to disconnect the criteria for exclusion from blood donation from the sexual orientation of prospective blood donors” is proposed.
The National Blood Donation Center form, until now, stated that one could not become a voluntary blood donor if one had had even a homosexual relationship since 1977 .
In this context, the new form of the blood donor history is presented in detail:
[Photo of the form in the article]
For Greece this is really great news considering they are rather slow with lgbt rights. Nice job!
This is an important decision for Greece, thus far the country had a total ban on blood donations for gay people.
A lot of countries you wouldn’t expect to see there STILL have restrictions on blood donations for gay men, not allowing them to donate blood if they had sexual contact with another man during a given time :
Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Iceland – 4 months
Sweden – 6 months
Belgium, Malta, Norway, Switzerland – 1 year
Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania – total ban
Greece joins Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia in having no restrictions for gay men to donate blood.
Good… bus still NO marriage equality (same-sex marriage) in Greece yet
This is an empty gesture
Benvenuti! Good job Greece on making a significant change that the entire EU, and beyond, should already have done many years ago! You will see the undebatable benefit of having many more new potential donors, to the benefit of your national blood system, of the chronically ill but potentially to anyone, since we could all need blood products in bad circumstances.
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What did people think? That getting blood from gay people makes you gay?
nice
There are already many people against this decision. Mostly people saying that a gay man can have HIV and if he donates blood the receiver will get HIV as well because it is a disease you cannot detect fast. I don’t know if it is true or not and what is the procedure but those concerns are coming mostly by homophobic people. The dumb thing is gay people could donate blood and before, the only thing they had to do is not inform they are homosexuals. So I don’t know what these people are afraid of.
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The content of the “history of blood donor” form, based on which until today sexual orientation was linked to whether a person can donate blood, is changing.
More specifically, according to a decision of the Ministry of Health, the ” need to disconnect the criteria for exclusion from blood donation from the sexual orientation of prospective blood donors” is proposed.
The National Blood Donation Center form, until now, stated that one could not become a voluntary blood donor if one had had even a homosexual relationship since 1977 .
In this context, the new form of the blood donor history is presented in detail:
[Photo of the form in the article]
For Greece this is really great news considering they are rather slow with lgbt rights. Nice job!
This is an important decision for Greece, thus far the country had a total ban on blood donations for gay people.
A lot of countries you wouldn’t expect to see there STILL have restrictions on blood donations for gay men, not allowing them to donate blood if they had sexual contact with another man during a given time :
Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Iceland – 4 months
Sweden – 6 months
Belgium, Malta, Norway, Switzerland – 1 year
Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania – total ban
Greece joins Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia in having no restrictions for gay men to donate blood.
Good… bus still NO marriage equality (same-sex marriage) in Greece yet
This is an empty gesture
Benvenuti! Good job Greece on making a significant change that the entire EU, and beyond, should already have done many years ago! You will see the undebatable benefit of having many more new potential donors, to the benefit of your national blood system, of the chronically ill but potentially to anyone, since we could all need blood products in bad circumstances.
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What did people think? That getting blood from gay people makes you gay?
nice
There are already many people against this decision. Mostly people saying that a gay man can have HIV and if he donates blood the receiver will get HIV as well because it is a disease you cannot detect fast. I don’t know if it is true or not and what is the procedure but those concerns are coming mostly by homophobic people. The dumb thing is gay people could donate blood and before, the only thing they had to do is not inform they are homosexuals. So I don’t know what these people are afraid of.