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• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
• NEW US BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TO GIVE
• FDA UPDAT BLOOD DONATN RUL OPENG PATH FOR MORE GAY DONORS
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WOULD BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AS FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS
• GAY & BISEXUAL MEN NOW ELIGIBLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR NEW FDA POLICI
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L

Origally, gay and bisexual men were pletely prohibed om donatg blood.

" In craftg the new guidance, the FDA has been lookg to the rults of a study of about 1, 600 gay and bisexual men to velop screeng qutns that n intify potential donors who are most likely to be fected wh HIV. So monogamo gay men uld start donatg blood aga sometime 2023. Is movg to ease rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men and other groups that tradnally face higher risks of HIV.

The Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) said Thursday had officially elimated rtrictns that had prevly prohibed many blood donatns by gay and bisexual men — a longstandg policy that crics say is discrimatory. Wh the updated guil, most gay and bisexual men who are a monogamo relatnship wh a man will no longer have to rea om sex orr to donate blood.

NEW US BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TO GIVE

At first, gay and bisexual men were pletely prohibed om donatg blood.

Print and CEO of GLAAD Sarah Kate Ellis echoed that approval a statement, sayg "The FDA's cisn to follow science and issue new remendatns for all Amerins, regardls of sexual orientatn, who selflsly donate blood to help save liv, signals the begng of the end of a dark and discrimatory past rooted fear and homophobia, " However, Ellis said while the new guidance is a step the right directn, there is still a barrier for LGBTQ+ people who are on PrEP, an FDA-approved dg proven to prevent the transmissn of HIV, who may want to donate blood.

Gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships n give blood the US whout abstag om sex unr updated feral health guil that foc on donors’ behavr, not their sexual Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) guil falized on Thursday ease s-old rtrictns signed to protect the blood supply om agency announced plans for the change January and said this week the new approach n now be implemented by blood updated guil do away wh a requirement that men who have sex wh men absta om sex for three months prr to givg blood. By Brenda Goodman(CNN) -- US Food and Dg Admistratn on Thursday paved the way for more gay and bisexual men to donate blood by falizg new risk-based remendatns for blood donatn. Gog forward, prospective donors will be asked the same set of qutns regardls of their sex or sexual the FDA began takg a send look at s guidance several years ago, gay and bisexual men had faced a lifetime ban on blood donatn, a move that many said was discrimatory.

FDA UPDAT BLOOD DONATN RUL OPENG PATH FOR MORE GAY DONORS

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"Current and former blood donatn polici ma unfound assumptns about gay and bisexual men and really entangled dividuals' inty wh their likelihood of havg HIV, " said Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocy U. And many other untri started blockg blood donatns om gay and bisexual men durg the early 1980s AIDS epimic, aimg to prevent the spread of HIV through the blood supply.

The policy would also apply to women who have sex wh gay or bisexual policy mirrors those ed Canada and the U.

MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WOULD BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AS FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS

It puts le wh the other untri the world that have moved to the most clive polici that uld be supported by the available science, " said Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Blogics Evaluatn and Rearch, durg the agency's Friday news FDA based s latt proposal on a recent study of 1, 600 gay and bisexual men.

GAY & BISEXUAL MEN NOW ELIGIBLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR NEW FDA POLICI

Pietrzak donated blood high school but beme eligible after beg sexually active as a gay man. Men monogamo relatnships are no longer required to absta om sex to donateSeveral years ago, an FDA reexamatn led to the liftg of a lifetime ban on blood donatns for gay and bisexual men. ""The FDA's cisn to follow science and issue new remendatns for all Amerins, regardls of sexual orientatn, who selflsly donate blood to help save liv, signals the begng of the end of a dark and discrimatory past rooted fear and homophobia, " the anizatn said a release.

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LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

But there is one easily implementable solutn to the natnal blood-supply shortage that’s been available for years and uld be a lifele: allowg gay and bisexual men to donate eely. S., gay and bisexual men (often referred to as MSM, or “men who have sex wh men”) are not allowed to give blood if they’ve had sex wh another man the past three months. “It is my opn that we ntue to have a real problem wh laws and regulatns based on fear rather than science, ” she ntuatn of a MSM-specific barrier to givg is not only limg the blood supply, ’s unnecsary and “rooted homophobia, ” explas Perry N.

”In 2015, theFDA loosened s rtrictn, permtg gay and bisexual men to donate blood as long as they hadn’t had sex wh another man the past year. For example, if you’re a gay man who wears ndoms durg sex, you lim your risk of ntractg HIV.

Same go for gay men who are married or a long-term monogamo relatnship.