Because HIV is transmitted by unsafe sex not gay sex, blood donors should be
screened for the safety of their sexual activity, not the gender of their sexual partner.
Australian gay blood donation litigant, Michael Cain.
~ Protesting the current gay blood ban
If you oppose the blanket ban on blood donation by all sexually-active gay and bisexual men please make your views known by letters to the editor, or by writing to your local MP.
You can also make your views known directly to the Australian Red Cross and the Red Cross Blood Service by writing to
Robert Tickner
Chief Executive Officer
Red Cross National Office
Postal: PO Box 196 Carlton Vic 3053
Telephone: 03 9345 1800
Facsimile: 03 9348 2513
Email: natinfo@redcross.org.au
and
The Chief Executive Officer
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
GPO Box 5103
MELBOURNE VIC 3001
Email: click here
~ Supporting Michael Cain's case
For more information about how you can support Michael Cain's landmark case please contact Michael himself at mike.cain@bigpond.com or on 0400 734 798.
~ What we do not want you to do
Because Michael's case is about increasing the amount of safe blood available for transfusion in Australia, we do not condone,
1. withdrawal of personal or corporate donations to the Red Cross
2. protests which disrupt the orderly gathering of blood donation
3. attempts to donate blood which ignore or attempt to circumvent the current screening process