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Continued from page 55 - Lifetime Blood Donation Ban Lifted for Men Who Have Had Sex with Men 12 months, with or without a condom, will still not be eligible to donate blood. The change will be implemented by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in England and North Wales on Monday 7 November and by the Blood Services of Scotland and Wales on the same date. The Advisory Committee, comprised of leading experts in the field, joined by patient groups and key stakeholders, carried out a rigorous review of the latest available evidence including: • the risk of infection being transmitted in blood; • attitudes to compliance with the donor selection criteria; and • improvements in testing of donated blood. The Committee found the evidence no longer supported the permanent exclusion of men who have had sex with men. The change means the criteria for men who have had sex with men will be in line with other groups who are deferred from giving blood for 12 months due to infection risks associated with sexual behaviours. Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: “Blood donations are a lifeline, and many of us would not have loved ones with us today if it was not for the selfless act of others. “Our blood service is carefully managed to maintain a safe and sufficient supply of blood for transfusions. Appropriate checks based on robust science must be in place to maintain this safety record and the Committee’s recommendation reflects this. It is important that people comply with all donor selection criteria, which are in place to protect the health of both donors and transfusion recipients.” Professor Deirdre Kelly from the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs said: “Around two million individuals generously donate blood every year in the UK to save patients’ lives. The SaBTO review examined the best available scientific evidence for UK blood donor selection in relation to sexual behaviours. Our recommendation takes account of new data that have become available since the last review in 2006, as well as scientific and technological advances in the testing of blood. “Adherence to the donor selection criteria is vital to maintain the safety of the blood supply, and donors need to be assured that the criteria are evidence-based. We are confident that this change maintains the safety of the blood supply.” Dr Lorna Williamson, NHS Blood and Transplant’s Medical and Research Director sad: “NHS Blood and Transplant’s priority as a blood service is to provide a safe and sufficient supply of blood for patients. We welcome this review and its conclusions. It gives us an opportunity to broaden our donor acceptance on the basis of the latest scientific evidence. “It is essential that our donor selection rules are based on good evidence to maintain their credibility with donors, and this change gives us an updated policy that is proportionate to the current risk. “The SaBTO review concluded that the safety of the blood supply would not be affected by the change and we would like to reassure patients receiving transfusions that the blood supply is as safe as it reasonably can be and amongst the safest in the world. There has been no documented transmission of a blood-borne virus in the UK since 2005, with no HIV transmission since 2002.” Sir Nick Partridge, Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), said: “We welcome this decision, which is based on strong new evidence that all the experts are agreed on. These regulations will ensure the safety of the blood supply for all of us while also being fair and equal in their application. We can now detect blood-borne viruses earlier and have more understanding of them, and the change reflects that. “The remaining deferral regulation for sexually active gay men is based on their heightened risk, as a group, of sexually acquired blood-borne viruses. Changing that depends on reducing gay men’s risk of HIV and other STIs to the same level as the rest of the population, and re-emphasising the vital importance of safer sex as far too many gay men still become infected with HIV each year. We will continue to campaign to improve gay men’s sexual health to a level where the regulations can be the same for all, regardless of sexuality.” Coordinator of the UK Thalassaemia Society Elaine Miller said: “Together with my colleague Dr Asa’ah Nkohkwo of the Sickle Cell Society, we have been members of the Blood Donor Selection Steering Group throughout the review of blood donor selection criteria related to sexual behaviour. We are completely satisfied that patient safety has been Continued on page 57 -56- Traditional African Clinic October 2011
Continued from page 56 - Lifetime Blood Donation Ban Lifted for Men Who Have Had Sex with Men regarded as paramount throughout the review process. Patients should therefore be reassured that their safety will not be compromised by this change. “We are fortunate enough to have an excellent system of blood donation in the UK which depends on the generosity and good faith of individual donors. Our members lives depend on this generosity and good faith and we are thankful to all those who come forward to donate blood.” SaBTO considered the evidence for the current deferral of commercial sex workers (other than those with a history of intravenous drug use) at the same time, but concluded that additional data were needed before it could consider recommending a change. Reference SaBTO, Blood Donor Selection Steering Group. Donor selection criteria review September 8, 2011. (http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalas sets/documents/digitalasset/dh_129909.pdf). UK Department of Health. Lifetime Blood Donation Ban Lifted for Men Who Have Had Sex with men. Press release. September 8, 2011. M Gibson. Britain Lifts Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood. Could the U.S. Be Far Behind Time. September 15, 2011. W Saletan. If you want to end the ban on gay men giving blood, tell us what you do in bed. Slate. September 9, 2011. http://hivandhepatitis.com/hiv-policy-advocacy/3237-uksafety-review-leads-to-lifting-ban-on-gay-blood-donors ☻☻☻☻☻☻ Zambia: Homosexuality in Society - Defective Counterfeit By Paul Kawimbe 26 October 2010 Opinion In writing this personal view point, I have no intentions to disparage anyone. I am not moved by personal vendetta against any individual but simply compelled by sense of duty for our Nation Zambia to preserve natural law which the proponents of homosexuality engender to violate. In Zambia, every morally upright individual or society has a vested interest in prohibiting behavior that endangers the health or safety of the community. It's against this background that practices like, homosexual liaisons have historically been forbidden by law. Natural law's most elementary principle is that "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided." By his or her natural reason, humankind can identify what is morally good or bad for him or her. Thus, he or she can know the end or purpose of each of his or her acts and how it is morally wrong to transform the means that help such a one to accomplish an act into the act's purpose. Being rooted in human nature, natural law is universal and immutable. It applies to the entire humanity. Therefore any Nation or Situation which institutionalises the circumvention of the purpose of the sexual act violates natural law and the objective norm of morality. It goes to say legal recognition of homosexuals would necessarily obscure certain basic moral values, devalue traditional marriage, and weaken public morality. If homosexuality is accepted as the sexual "freedom," what logical arguments can we use to stop acts of incest, pedophilia, bestiality, and other forms of unnatural behaviour In the 1960s, society was pressured to accept all kinds of immoral sexual relationships between men and women. Today we are seeing a new sexual revolution where society is being asked to accept homosexuality and same-sex "marriage." Romans 1:26 and 27 records human immorality: "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations "heterosexual" to the unnatural ones "homosexual". In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion". Dangers of Institutionalising Homosexuality The best scientific evidence suggests that putting society's stamp of approval on homosexuality would harm society in general and homosexuals in particular. A large body of scientific evidence suggests that homosexual marriage is a defective counterfeit of traditional marriage and that it poses a clear and present danger to the health of the community. Meanwhile, traditional marriage improves the health of Continued on page 58 -57- Traditional African Clinic October 2011
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