in America you donate blood for free, and your blood gets sold to the hospitals for 100-400 dollars. then the hospitals charge the patients who receive it even more than that.
in America you donate blood for free, and your blood gets sold to the hospitals for 100-400 dollars. then the hospitals charge the patients who receive it even more than that.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
In Canada we donate blood for free, then they sell it to America.
twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
That is true. And Canadian Blood Services is still super homophobic.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Are they?
I thought that change (2022) was the end of the discussion.
twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Tragically, no. I thought so too until quite recently. They did improve things but it’s pretty rough
Since a viral load can be reduced to zero through medication, HIV-positive folks can be non contagious. The use of condoms, even if the viral load is not suppressed through medication, seriously reduces the risk of HIV transmission. They don’t ask questions about condom usage. To be clear I’m not suggesting that HIV-positive folks should be donating blood, just that the actual factors for transmission are way more specific than “butt stuff = AIDS” the way that they imply. The result of this is still excluding queer folks end up getting excluded with language that’s less overtly hostile and more implicitly hostile.
The screening doesn’t exclude people based how many partners a person has slept with, or whether they have used protection (both of which are massive risk factors for transmission) and instead basically forbids anyone who engages in anal sex from donating blood.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
to top up all the dumbasses who get shot down there in actual hell