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Homosexuality and blood donation: gay Toulouse mobilize – LINFO.re

The collectif Toulousain Homodonneur wants concrete answers to a question, challenging the minister of health Olivier Véran.

“More of a risk to contract AIDS ?”

Homodonneur wants concrete answers to this question : “is there more risk to contract the AIDS when the donor is homosexual ?”… As reported by france3-regions.francetvinfo.frthe members of the group met on Friday, June 12, to call on the minister of health Olivier Véran on the subject. Due to the coronavirusthey were only a dozen in front of the space Duranti of Toulouse.

For Homodoneurno reliable data exists concerning this risk of transmission. The coordinator of the Collective, Frédéric Pecharmansays : “there is a risk, we do not deny. But we want to evaluate it, to know what it is exactly”. Today, “it is not in the safety, it is in delirium”.

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Since 1983…

As a reminder, in 1983, individuals having relations homosexual have been excluded from the blood donationthe reason for this is the risk of transmission of the AIDS. At this time, the tests do not exist, and no one yet knew very little about the disease.

The year 2016 has marked the end of discrimination against gays. They could do blood donation while justifying a year of sobriety. A situation which was strongly criticised. Since 2 April, this period is increased to 4 months.

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