Gay & Bisexual Men Now Eligible to Donate Blood Under New FDA Policies
The agency has moved toward risk-based assessments as opposed to discriminatory bans based on gender or sexual orientation.
May 11, 2023
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The agency has moved toward risk-based assessments as opposed to discriminatory bans based on gender or sexual orientation.
Jordan Moll-Vigrass, who donated blood Wednesday after a year of celibacy, aims to raise awareness of the discriminatory FDA policy.
All prospective donors who report having a new sexual partner or anal sex in the last three months will have to defer donations for three months.
The FDA now recommends that gay and bi men be allowed to donate blood after three months of sexual abstinence, not 12 as previously allowed.
The new guidelines eliminates the gendered-language in the current blood donation questionaire.
The discriminatory blood ban based on sexual orientation is over, but what does that mean?
As many blood centers scramble to update guidelines, New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman is urging an end to any abstinence period for gay and bi men.
Lawmakers John Kerry and Mike Quigley are amping up their effort to end the ban on gay men donating blood.
Civil rights groups say the FDA's new guidelines are 'unacceptable' for retaining restrictions on blood donations by sexually active gay and bisexual men. And for transgender donors, there's also a change in the works.
If politics forces the closure of the Clinton Foundation, the flow of lifesaving HIV meds will abruptly end.
Soon, queer men in relationships will be able to donate blood without restrictions, according to a new report.
A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high-risk, her attorney said.
The president should demonstrate his commitment to LGBTQ+ equality by ending this antiquated rule.
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