In Austria, the blood donation procedure is changed
If you look into the demands of the queer community, you will comparatively quickly come across a very special word that has caused quite a stir, especially in recent months: "blood donation ban and blood donation procedure."
In Austria, there are new regulations in this regard. The special thing: Neither gay nor bisexual men are to be discriminated against here in the future. What may still be a bit of a wait in Germany has thus become real for many queers in Austria.
Blood Donation Procedures in Austria: What's New?
This is a real turning point. Because: In Austria, sexually active homosexual and bisexual people are now "officially" allowed to donate blood - partly because there is a clear shortage of reserves.
Thus, the community in the country has managed to take an important step toward equality. In the meantime, many people from politics have already spoken positively about the development.
One of the politicians who welcomes the new requirements is the Minister of Health of Austria Johannes Rauch. He said in an official statement to the press agency that in this way discrimination against queers would be eliminated.
At the same time, Rauch emphasized that it is thanks in part to the efforts of the community in the country that there is now more equality.
Evaluations, prejudices and problems
It is not only in Austria that the blood donation procedure for queers has been discussed for a long time. In other countries of the world, too, the question of whether people may be excluded without assessing their individual risk behavior is always topical.
Through the ban, gay men, for example, are accused of dissolute, and certainly irresponsible, sexual behavior - even though heterosexuals can, of course, also become infected with the HI virus. However, virtually no one asks them about their individual risk.
Austria: Who is allowed to donate blood and who is not?
The specifications surrounding the blood donation process in Austria are precisely defined. The following applies: Those who have had sex with three or more partners in the last three months are not allowed to donate blood for a period of also three months ..., And this regardless of whether they are homosexual, bi-sexual or heterosexual, for example. In addition, blood donors must not have had unprotected intercourse with new partners for one month prior to donating blood.
The "old regulations" seem more than outdated in this context. Until recently, gay men were not allowed to have had sex for 12 months (!) in order to be allowed to donate blood.
Those responsible in Austria now hope that the number of people willing to donate blood in Austria will increase. After all, this could ensure that a shortage of blood reserves can be avoided as best as possible.
When will the ban on blood donation in Germany be lifted?
This is a question about the blood donation process that no one can answer exactly. What is certain is that the traffic light coalition has spoken out in favor of abolition. At the moment, however, politicians are primarily concerned with all the issues surrounding the Self-Determination Act.
Accordingly, the current rule is still that bisexual and gay men are only allowed to donate blood if they have had only one (and, moreover, no new) partner in the four months prior to the blood donation date.
One question that keeps hovering over everything here is, of course, what is it worth to people to be allowed to donate blood? Wouldn't it make more sense to avoid a lack of reserves as best as possible? Or is it really realistic, for example, for a man to forgo sex with his new partner because he wants to go to donate blood "a few days later"?
Politicians in Germany will probably also have to deal in detail with precisely these points in the future - in parallel with the Self-Determination Act.
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