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  • There is no rational or logic in this discrimination. They both are high risk group in terms of carrying HIV and Hep B & C viruses. If person who was involved in multiple sex relationship, but now has one steady partner and has passed the incubation period of 12 months, he can be now allowed to donate blood. The reason a gay might be refused is because they do not know his partner's history and he is still in that relationship. Since most of the gays are not in married relationship, the blood donation centre considers them high risk group because their partner may be involved in polygamy. At times the early HIV and Hep B viruses do not get detected in blood in first 3 to 6 months of incubation period, there is risk of transferring them into recipient's body. Both recipient and donor may show the effect of the disease much later in their life. Some viruses take as much as 3 yrs to show in blood of a person. It is for benefit of the patient to not to allow blood donation from people who are high risk group; gay or not gay.

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