[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But those other conditions you named,
> i.e. high blood pressure, taking insulin, etc are all _medical_
> conditions which could influence the health of the donor. A healthy
> (i.e. no high blood pressure, no insulin, etc) homosexual does not
> fall in that category; there are no _medical_ restrictions with
> such a person.
The CDC claims that about 25% of "men who have sex with men" (their term) are HIV-infected, and that many of them are unaware or strongly in denial about this.