Finland allows homosexual and bisexual men to donate blood if they haven’t had any sexual interactions for a year. If a woman has sex with a bisexual man who recently has had sex with another man then the woman isn’t allowed to donate blood for a year either.
As some of you might know I’m a bit political involved and therefore I would like to promote a campaign the Swedish Social Democratic youth group (Swedish: SSU, Sveriges socialdemokratiska ungdomsförbund) is currently running. Their campaign called “Bloody serious” (Swedish: “Blodigt allvar”) is a campaign whose goal is to get the government's attention so they will change the law about blood donation. Homosexual and bisexual men are allowed to donate blood as long as they have had a 1 year deferral period when they are not allowed to have sex with their partner. This basically means that homosexual and bisexual men are not able to donate blood or they are not allowed to have a sex life, that’s a really discriminating law. It’s also a really stupid law since hospitals all over Sweden doesn’t have enough blood to help all of those who would need it!
It takes 6-8 weeks for an HIV test to show if a person is HIV positive or not. Blood is, also, undergoing a lot of tests before being used for transplantation which means the chances that any type of blood disease, such as HIV, would be in the blood they use for transplantation is rather minimalistic. Which means that the most logical thing would be to allow homosexual and bisexual men to donate blood the same as everyone else is allowed to.
If you live in Sweden and want the law in Sweden to change then make sure to sign this petition!
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