2023-09-07 08:07:14
Until now, homosexual men were only allowed to donate blood under certain circumstances. The background was that they were assumed to have an increased risk of infection. Statistics show that many people change sex partners more often than heterosexuals and that infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis are transmitted more quickly during anal sex. If such an infection is fresh, it cannot initially be detected in the donated blood. The risk of recipients of blood donations becoming infected as a result was considered too high.
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