Just gave blood again, do you?

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My understanding is that the issue with gay donors is not the technology, but the politics: the NBS really does NOT want all the "OMG gays will give AIDS to accident victims" headlines that you can be sure the red-tops will come up with. Eventually this will change, but only with a lot of government money for advertising and lobbying the papers. And I can't see the Tories stumping up.


As for the "received blood donation since 1980" thing, my understanding was that this was now dropped? As of a few months ago. The donor form no longer asks the question. I understand that this was a NVCJD question, but now they are certain the CJD isn't a problem, and that everyone who was going to get it now has. People who have been prevented in the past from donating for this reason might want to check.



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More O+ means higher demand yes but also more to supply that demand, it's all proportional and the rarer groups are the real issues.

And one hopes, lots of other people that will receive it before you.


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Oh great, it's the 'if you don't give blood you deserve to die, irrespective of how you give to society in other ways' crew.

 
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Is it; O+ able to give to all + blood groups and O- can give to all blood groups?

I give whenever my 4 months are up, I never feel anything unpleasent. The anaemic test is the worse, that little ***** always catches me off guard.
 
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Is it; O+ able to give to all + blood groups and O- can give to all blood groups?

I give whenever my 4 months are up, I never feel anything unpleasent. The anaemic test is the worse, that little ***** always catches me off guard.

o+ can give to all + groups


o- can give to anyone + or minus
 
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