In this day of severe blood shortages, the better education of people to the safe practice of sex and better blood testing techniques, should'nt gay men be allowed to give blood to help increase blood supplies?
199073
NO, they should not be banned. \n\nThat is just plain absurd.
373295
Why is it so hard to believe that people get HIV from unsafe sex?\n\nIt doesn't matter if he was black, gay, straight, jewish or republican.... you can only contract HIV so many ways....\n\nand why would the government care about him?
588440
First of all my hat off to toaster pilot. He's the man. \n\nPeople do good things because it makes you feel good ... just little things like holding the door open for someone, or reaching down and picking up an item that someone driopped.\n \nI think that's why people donate blood  .... because saving a life ... makes you feel good. During the summer months blood donations go down because of vacation travel .... and supplies can become critical. \n\nSo ... if you're lookin' for a way to feel really good ... Donate blood and save a life.
557879
your question is out of context.\nChrist said "drink of my blood and eat of my flesh" that does not mean literally drink blood and eat flesh. It means quench yr thirst for righteousness through accepting Christ's blood shed for us. It means to follow his righteous path and to preserve his memory in our hearts. Its a symbol!\n\nNothingn to do with blood transfusions. Those who cannot accept a blood transfucion usually are radical and sects that have not understood much of the context in which Christ instructed us since he came to earth.\n\nI would accept blood transf. if it s not contaminated with hiv thats for sure . So you make sure you go to a blood bank that absolutely has no hiv in their blood bags.
201779
Well First of all i would say this is a very good question. But i think the status in India is getting worse every day, i just read accoding to a survey it is increasing by 10% every year so it means if it continue at the same level, then in 10 years everyone in the county will be HIV positive. Thats Terrible. About the steps taken by govt, they are doing nothing, let me give you a very good example, i myself is 19 yr old guy from Delhi and i have sex every week with a new girl and i think this is gonna continue. But no one ever came to me asking for HIV check up.  I think the government should make these checkups necessarry for everyone betweenthe age of 18-28. And there is ofcourse a lot to do.\nHope it will give you a answer you were looking for.
268429
In the 50's syphilis testing was mandatory as a blood test demanded before a wedding.  You could not get a civil marriage license for your wedding to be conducted in a church or by a judge or JP without having to had the paper with the results of this test.  You had to have the test 5 days before your wedding day... The results of an old test was not acceptable... it had to be current to the wedding... so if you had to have this test in the 1950's I don't see why the AIDS test could not be made mandatory too... If it means maintaining our national health... AIDS testing should be mandatory of all 18 year olds as a requirement for entrance from high school into college... I would not mind taking the test...
219435
HIV can be transsmited only by blood or seminal fluids. Hope u understand this. If u eat semen or vagunal fluid u can get it
328698
because a lot of those questions are very old and the united blood service just happened to keep them in the questionare.\n\nlike the other question that says were you outside of the united states in 1854 (or something like that) and of course you werent because you werent born yet. but they still ask you because that question was added in during that time of year.\n\nand they ask that for guys because back then when people were first learning about the AIDs Epidemic, they only found it in Homosexuals.
97385
Aids does get the most research money, and has for several years.  The reason for this is the death rate involved and the transmission of the disease.  While more people die from cancer, it is usually later in life and is not contagious.  This research money has little effect on gay marriage though, so that is a pointless argument.  If anything married gays would be less likely to pass the AIDS virus on to multiple partners, so use Sowells own argument against him.
469873
never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of determined people.  All over Africa, the governments have been trying to educate their citizens about HIV.  And for the most part, they are literally laughed at.  In a majority of those nations, women do not have the right to say no to a man, much less demand he use a condom.  And the men simply refuse to believe that they must at the very least practise safe sex, or abstinence...they do not believe they can sicken and die until it actually happens, and sometimes even then, they do not believe that it was having sex that gave them the disease.  Frankly, I think HIV is turning out to be an excellent way of cleaning out the gene pool.
493760
No you can not. If you have had sex with a man regardless of protection, you should never donate. The risk is to great.
142746
You can't earn money by donating blood anywhere in the US.  You can donate plasma for money, but not blood.  That's why it's called a "donation".
352594
December 1st is world AIDS Day, how about an article of how it effecting Children in Africa (or about how gay teens are a growing segment of the infected).  I think we are tempted to write of HIV like it was yesterday, but it is still real, and people need to be reminded how to prevent it.
638650
You have to meet certain requirements. Think of all the good you can do for someone in need. They will not draw your blood if you are under weight or cannot afford to loose the minimum of 450ml.\nYour body will replace this amount of blood by the next day. We told donors to go home and have a steak for dinner. A spinach salad will be as close to that as possible.
153295
I think you should be able to do that, but check with the local blood donation service please.
301502
Yes.  Sometimes the blood isn't very red at the beginning and the end.  Expect it to be weird before it gets regular- just keep supplies with you just in case and keep track of it.
36422
Wow, i wonder if there is actually a way to do that with protection. Good thing you are just a wanna be becuase i hear just about all Vamps nowadays have the HIV.