Rejected petition Screen blood donors by risk

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Currently gay and bisexual men have to be celibate for 12 months before being able to donate blood.

This petition asks the department of health to instruct the national blood service to include within their screening questions questions about high risk sexual activity.

This petition also asks the dept of health to drop their current policy of gay and bisexual men from having to be celibate for 12 months.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Date submitted 19 February 2015
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