Um... I dunno what polls you are looking at on that site. They all pretty much show her winning but the new Fox one.

Then the DHQ you did goes beyond FDA requirements. The current Full DHQ only covers: Sex with HIV+ person, Sex w/ sex worker, sex w/ hemophiliac, sex w/ man, sex w/ MSM, sex w/ person w/ hepatitis and being treated for syphilis, gonorrah, and hepatitis. (Oh and if you have sex w/ someone who was born or lived in…

I suggest updating the article title to be: “Straight men who experimented in college can now donate blood (without lying)”

According to the FDA, the rate of non-compliance with indefinite deferrals is 2.6%. Honestly, after reading the actual FDA docs, is not about gay men at all. It allows a large number of straight identified men how have had at least one life time encounter with another man to stop lying on the form.

Actually, the reason they use MSM and not the term gay is because a large number of straight identified men who had had a sexual encounter with men in the past where in non-compliance with he lifetime deferral. I suppose the positive outcome of the change is the number of straight men who have lied to give blood will…

Below is a direct link to the FDA BPAC documents (section 8 - Data Driven Policy Change re: Australian MSM blood Donor Deferral)

And yet no one asks a straight man if he’s had a different partner every week. So he can still donate.

Modern testing doesn’t use the antibody testing, it actually looks for either the antigens or the genetic material of the virus and is definitive at 3 months and has an average window of 12 days.

The statistics are rough to play with because the CDC uses males who have sex with males (MSM) not self identification as gay when talking about transmission rates. So while only a small population identifies as gay... there is a growing body of survey data indicating a larger pool of men fall into the MSM behavior…

You are factually wrong on the FDA not using finding of other countries when making decisions. The FDA cited Australia’s change in blood donation policy as evidence for their own change.

Interestingly enough, a straight man can have risky sex with as many women as he wants (as long as he doesn’t pay for it) and give blood. A gay man can be a in a long term monogamous relationship and still must be celibate for 1 year to give blood.