The ban on blood donatns by gay people was troduced the 1980s — when rmatn available on the tectn and transmissn of HIV/AIDS was much ls than today.
Contents:
- TRANS AND GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN SEX WORKERS N’T DONATE BLOOD: WHAT THE CENTRE SAID SC
- BLOOD DONATN BY GAY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE: WHY WAS THE BAN IMPOSED? WHAT ARE THE L ACROSS THE WORLD?
- FDA WILL NOW ALLOW BLOOD DONATNS FROM GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AND TRANSGENR WOMEN
TRANS AND GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN SEX WORKERS N’T DONATE BLOOD: WHAT THE CENTRE SAID SC
Learn about feral regulatns related to blood donatn by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Genr non-nformg (LGBTQ+) dividuals. * transgender gay blood donation *
However, women who have recently had sex wh a gay or bisexual man may be ferred. Gay and bisexual men are eligible to donate three months after their last sexual enunter wh another man. In s affidav, the ernment said that the excln of transgenr and gay people om blood donatn is premised on scientific evince and add “There is substantial evince to show that transgenr persons, men havg sex wh men and female sex workers are at risk" for HIV, Hepatis B or C fectns.
BLOOD DONATN BY GAY, TRANSGENR PEOPLE: WHY WAS THE BAN IMPOSED? WHAT ARE THE L ACROSS THE WORLD?
petn strike down prohibn on gays transgenrs donatg blood, Centre "exclns based on due nsiratn of scientific evince". * transgender gay blood donation *
Trans and gay people, women sex workers n’t donate blood: What the Centre said SC. The Centre recently told the Supreme Court, through an affidav filed by the Unn Mistry of Health & Fay Welfare, that the excln of transgenrs, gay people, and female sex workers as blood donors by cludg them the “at risk” tegory for HIV, Hepatis B, or C fectns is based on due nsiratn of scientific evince. The Central ernment’s rponse me after Thangjam Sgh, a member of the transgenr muny, moved the Supreme Court seekg to strike down the prohibn on gay and transgenr people om donatg blood unr cls 12 and 51 of the ‘Guil for Blood Donor Selectn & Blood Donor Referral, 2017’ issued by the Natnal Blood Transfn Council (NBTC) and the Natnal Aids Control Organisatn on October 11, do the 2017 Guil say?
FDA WILL NOW ALLOW BLOOD DONATNS FROM GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AND TRANSGENR WOMEN
Clse 12 of the Guil is tled ‘Risk Behavr” falls unr the “Blood Donor Selectn Creria’, and mandat that the donor be ee om any termable disease transmissible by blood transfn and “not be a person nsired at risk for HIV, Hepatis B or C fectns”, such as transgenr and gay people, female sex workers, jectg dg ers, persons wh multiple sexual partners or any other high risk, termed by the medil officer cidg their fns for blood donatn. Further, Clse 15 permanently fers those “at risk for HIV fectn”, cludg gay and transgenr people, om donatg blood.