@zoemato: “Red Cross comes to take blood at gmc, this is what we left on their table.” #greenmtn #redcross #blood #blooddrive #homophobic #usda #gay #policy #discrimination #vt #vermont #oppression #gayrights #fag #americanredcross #donation (at Green Mountain College)
seriously, the whole ‘banning certain demographics because they might be more likely to have HIV’ is bullshit, and i can’t believe it still exists.
The American Red Cross has been working for years to have this ruling repealed. Here’s one article about it.
The Red Cross has a fail-safe system in place for such situations, running diagnostics on each donation before its distributed. Last year, of the 224,500 donations in Central Ohio, 8 tested positive for HIV and were destroyed, Wilson added.
The Red Cross, along with the American Association of Blood Banks and the American Blood Centers, has formally petitioned the FDA to modify the policy, Wilson explained.
(Source: thefreedomofthehills)
