IIRC, there was an actual incident of people getting HIV/AIDS from a transfusion which lead to the introduction of the ban.
Unfortunately, the number of homosexuals in the world isn't high enough to offset the number of people who would stop donating blood from homophobia if an organization changed their stance on this issue.
I'm not willing to let masses of people die just so that I can be "politically correct" about homosexuals being able to donate blood.
IIRC, there was an actual incident of people getting HIV/AIDS from a transfusion which lead to the introduction of the ban.
Unfortunately, the number of homosexuals in the world isn't high enough to offset the number of people who would stop donating blood from homophobia if an organization changed their stance on this issue.
I'm not willing to let masses of people die just so that I can be "politically correct" about homosexuals being able to donate blood.