CDC classifies people with two+ sex partners a year “high risk”
With the new guidelines, every college student in America will be high-risk….
Right now, it’s probably a prostitute or a guy with a needle in his arm. Next time, it will be just a young guy….
If you were going to give your organ to your mom or dad or sister, you’re going to be ashamed of that. You’re either going to say no, or you’re going to lie.
~ Dr. Harry Dorn-Arias, a transplant surgeon at the University of Virginia, commenting on new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention organ donation guidelines which classify persons with 2 or more sex partners per year as “high-risk” for certain STDs, as quoted by New York Daily News, December 5
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Dec.06, 2011 6:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
So in other words…either organ donation will become even more rare, or people who receive a transplanted organ will be considered at higher risk for some diseases…or both???
Or will people in the “low risk” category be less likely to receive needed medical care in order to harvest our organs (I’m one of those, btw)???
Yikes! This is kind of scary…because diseases are spreading more and more – I know a few people who have contracted minor things – but also used to work at a infectious disease doctor’s office – and there’s more people than you think in your own town who have HIV and AIDs.
It makes me worried because a large amount of people have way more than 2 partners per year…so if our culture does not change - will they not accept these donations?
A patient should tell their family and very close friends what they want, with respect to organ donation. There is a disadvantage to advanced directives.
Without the signed statements, the organs can be withheld if the obama care providers appear to eager to let a patient die. The family can refuse to donate. This might be a form of patient advocacy.
People should understand that Obamacare will make organ donation more rare all by itself, without the PR justification for decreased availability provided by the CDC branch of the government.
One needs to understand that all of the drug shortages, the new standards of preventative care (reduced tests and exams), and this means of reducing the population of eligible organ donors, all add up to the reduced delivery of health care and earlier deaths. The effect is to reduce strain on medicare, medicaid, social security and cut the cost of health care. It’s a palatable way to manage the distribution of scarce health resources.
People did not want to deal with a later retirement, but they will accept a shorter avg. lifespan.
Pharmer-
I hadn’t even thought of that!!!
My aunt had a liver transplant. It takes a lot of care to keep her going, and she’s still not doing too well. That’s a lot of expense, and when you’re talking about someone on a government program, that is a TON of money.
This is beyond frightening.
So the author would rather make it easier to put organs at higher risk of transmitting STDs into patients than make anybody feel bad about sleeping around a bit?
Good to know where his priorities are.
I take offense at his statement that “every college student in America will be high-risk….” Not every college student lacks self-control. Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for some of my peers.
If having two or more sex partners in a year does actually increase the risk of diseases that would complicate organ donation, then I don’t really see a problem with this. Obviously having more sex partners increases your risk of STI’s, and some STI’s certainly could pose complications and could be difficult to quickly test for (ie, HIV, Hep B). Most people who have Hep C don’t even know it themselves.
So I really, really think it’s a stretch to say that classifying these groups of people as “high-risk” for organ donation is a government conspiracy. I’d think that NOT classifying them as such is more of a conspiracy, in that the government would be knowingly allowing people to risk receiving sub-par organ donations.
It takes an incredible amount of ignorance to think that having two or more sex partners a year doesn’t increase your risk of COMMUNICABLE disease. Cripes.
Maybe the problem is, so much focus is being put on “the dangers of pregnancy” in “sex ed” and PP is making sure that “little problem” is seen as just a quick fix with no consequences, instead of the focus being on the STD’s and how PERMANENT most of them are. Let alone embarrassing, painful, and life-changing. Too many kids and even adults have not learned just how prevalent these infections are, so they think like this article writer. “Geez two partners aren’t that many, gosh, like what could happen? Fer sure!” Ugh. Ignorance. Arrogance. A time-bomb.
I think if about half of sexually active adults have genital warts, and forty percent of adults have herpes (not sure of the overlap), it isn’t a stretch to think that sleeping with two or more people a year would raise you to “high risk”. It’s just statistics. That really sucks.
I too am annoyed by his ‘every college student’ remark. I know plenty of ppl who made it through 4 years of college with less than 2 sexual partners. Yeah, most of them were Christian, but not all, I knew perfectly non-religious students that didn’t have 2(+) sexual partners as well.
college students are the new teen agers
disparage at will, because generally they suck
Is this really what we want to do?
I think the “every college student” thing was just a figure of speech, exaggeration – not what he literally meant.
But I was a resident advisor my last two years in college and you’d be surprised at the number of times you walk down the hall on rounds and just HEAR sex EVERYWHERE…and some realllllllly awkward parties that you break up involving sex.
However, it must be noted, that I went to a small private school full of really stuck up rich kids who didn’t care what they did to their lives and we busted a lot of underage parties and saw a lot of people get arrested for drug possession….sooooooooooo I think my school was just skeezy hahaha.
Amber Currie, we had 1 girl on my dorm floor freshman year that was a screamer. I was unaccustomed to such things and almost beat down her door thinking she was getting killed or something. (My hand was raised above her door when she screamed again and I realized it had ‘that’ tone to it) and, if my closet door was open you could hear my next door neighbors and their boyfriends. Ironically to the current conversation, one of my next door neighbors had 2 partners that year, the other had 1 that she ended up marrying. It was a smaller, scholastically intense college, however, that wasn’t a well know party school or anything.
Now, my high school on the other hand, had such a problem with sex in the library that they finally broke down and bought new furniture and redesigned the layout in an attempt to cut down on the coupling.
the high school library?! just wrong….just wrong…
Yeah, sometimes through muffled walls it sounds like something else is going on in there! haha
One of the RDs liked to go around if it was past quiet hours knocking on their doors and saying things like “It’s not that good!” or “She’s faking it!” …that shut them up real quick ;)
Amber, yeah, my high school was kind of like your college, filled with bored rich kids who felt entitled to do whatever they wanted. Drug use and drinking was exceptionally common, even on campus, and if it wasn’t sex in the libary it was making out in the caffateria. I didn’t usually eat in there because I wasn’t fond of watching some boy with his hand up a girl’s shirt be ignored by everyone not directly involved. “4:20” parties were openly advertized and discussed, and I once had a teacher tell a couple of students if they didn’t stop trapsing through his yard at 2am to get home from the (frequent) party behind him he was calling the cops. Note, not that he knew they were sneaking home drunk/high, but rather annoyed cuz they walked over his flowers. I did not like high school. At least my stance was rather obvious, no one ever invited me to such parties. Didn’t keep me from overhearing about them the next morning. It was ‘the’ thing to do on your 18th bday to go to a local strip club who was known for pulling up any newly legals onto the stage. (In oregon stip joints can be frequented by 18+ not 21+) College was downright tame by comparision, at least most of the ppl in college were marginally interested in getting their homework done before they went partying.
Two sexual partners a year doesn’t seem like much to me — some of my clients have twice as many, even more.