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Students protest blood donation ruling 15/11/2004 - 10:51:46 Students at University College Cork will this week protest a Blood Transfusion Service ruling which stops gay men giving blood.The students will protest when the Blood Transfusion Service comes to UCC for their blood drive.Gay men are banned from giving blood under a measure first put in place 20 years ago. This ban stems from an emergency policy at the height of the AIDS panic around 1985 when the FDA in America imposed a blanket ban on gay men giving blood. UCC Campaigns Officer Sonya Donnelly said: "We are asking the IBTS to re-examine their policy and allow healthy and safe people to donate."

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