24-12-14 15:38 pm – Source: Reuters
Blood Bags at Sanquin in Amsterdam. © anp
The blood bank Sanquin has no plans to allow homosexuals to donate blood . That a spokesman said today after the US regulator FDA had given advice to gay and bisexual men in the United States again to let give blood.
Men who indicate they have had sex with other men remain excluded from blood donation, “said the spokesman of Sanquin. He emphasizes that it only comes to an opinion from the FDA.
He asks Sanquin not to the nature of people, but purely to sexual behavior. According to the blood bank of HIV transmission ‘a hundred times greater in men who have sex with other men “than men who do it with women. “We want to provide safe blood,” the spokesman said.
The Lower House passed two years ago a motion to blood donation by allowing homosexuals. Sanquin said at first to await the advice of the Council of Europe. This opinion is there now, but offered no handle for a uniform policy, because the situation of each country. It was therefore for the blood bank no reason to change the policy, said the spokesman
Well let Sanquin investigate whether it is possible to extend the inspection policy for blood donors
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