FDA eas rtrictns on gay blood donors amid 'urgent need'

Contents:

• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
• GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN
• REVELATORY NEW WORK OF ART NONTS GAY BLOOD BAN AND THE WASTE ED BY POLICI ROOTED STIGMA
• THE “GAY BLOOD BAN” ISN’T OVER
• BENGAY
• WHY NEW FDA REMENDATNS AGAST A GAY BLOOD BAN ARE MEANGLS
• FDA EAS RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS AMID 'URGENT NEED'
• THE ARTIST MAKG T-SHIRTS PRTED WH GAY MEN’S BLOOD
• TRY CHURCH ON WALL STREET TO HOST ‘GAY BLOOD’ ARTWORK

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

Dpe this urgent need for donatns, people who have sex wh gay or bisexual men are still facg rtrictns on their abily to give Food and Dg Admistratn bars people who have had sex wh gay or bisexual men om donatg blood for three months followg the most recent sexual ntact bee of fears of HIV the blood agency changed the ferral perd om 12 months to three months November 2020 as blood donatns fell and hospals faced cril shortag durg the first year of the COVID-19 advot, cludg the Human Rights Campaign, say the FDA is movg too slowly on removg the rtrictn, sayg that 's an outright ban on the abily of people, particularly gay and bisexual men, to donate blood. Rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men, who are nsired to be at high risk for HIV or AIDS transmissn, date back to the and bisexual men unrgo dividual risk asssments stead of time-based bans untri around the world, recently cludg Greece and France, acrdg to ternatnal reports. A person is tted durg the first gay men's blood drive, held at the Memorial Blood Center St.

The event was held to prott feral l that effectively ban gay men om donatg Bispg/Star Tribune via Getty Imag, FILEValant told ABC News a new statement that rearchers are halfway toward s goal of enrollg 2, 000 participants across eight ci: Washgton D. They enurage gay and bisexual men who are 18 to 39 years old to participate the FDA, a statement to ABC News, said that this study uld generate data that will help the agency terme if a donor's dividual risk asssment and qutnnaire would be jt as effective rcg the risk of HIV the blood supply as the time-based ferrals the FDA already has FDA also said do not have a specific timele for when the studi will be pleted but that is "mted to gatherg the scientific data that n support alternative donor ferral polici that mata a high level of blood safety. 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.

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

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.

GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN

Same go for gay men who are married or a long-term monogamo relatnship. Conducted tanm wh the natn’s largt blood centers—the Amerin Red Cross, Valant, and OneBlood—the rearch effort will survey 2, 000 gay and bisexual men across the untry between the ag of 18 and 30 who have had sex wh at least one man the past three months.

”The policy change uld have a signifint posive effect on the mental health of gay and bisexual men, too. It also puts gay and bisexual men at higher risk for acquirg HIV over time.

“Social and stctural factors that e gay men to feel othered e them to engage risky sexual behavr, ” Halkis says.

REVELATORY NEW WORK OF ART NONTS GAY BLOOD BAN AND THE WASTE ED BY POLICI ROOTED STIGMA

So a ban like this isn’t jt harmful to the Amerin public; “’s credibly harmful to the gay muny, both emotnally and physilly. The first step is to sign GLAAD’s petn at You then n—and should—te those around you, “sce many people, cludg gay and bi men, don’t know that this ban exists, ” adds Lasky. Let them know you don’t support discrimatory practic that ban gay and bisexual men om dog their civic duty.

The origal Natnal Gay Blood Drive group tried a peaceful untry-wi stance which normally eligible bisexual/gay male donors would show up to get tted at their lol blood donatn center and attempt to donate their blood. As every donor is refed, their evaluatn rult will be taken, llected and passed to the FDA – visually nveyg on a natnal level how much blood that the gay muny uld give to the blood supply if they lift their ban and change the current policy. Their ntact rmatn has been provid for you to reach out and tell them how you feel about the ban agast gay/bisexual donors.

THE “GAY BLOOD BAN” ISN’T OVER

On this se, we will attempt to stay up to day wh current law chang for gay men blood donatns, HIV updat, latt rearch, and ttg rmatn. Can a blood tt terme if you're gay?

BENGAY

“This announcement by the FDA rc the wag perd of time to 3 months and shrks s untenable, virtual ‘ban’ on blood donatns for gay and bi+ men.

Contug to enforce the facto prohibn on blood donatn by sexually active gay and bisexual men do not reflect the bt science available. Close this ntentKSTUKSTUJuly 19, 2023 at 8:17 AMGay men who were once unable to donate blood were able to participate blood driv for the very first time.

WHY NEW FDA REMENDATNS AGAST A GAY BLOOD BAN ARE MEANGLS

A form of this ban remas place to this day, makg the US one of the only untri to ntue to ban the donatn of gay men’s thk that’s pretty fucked up.

FDA EAS RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS AMID 'URGENT NEED'

So we took the FDA’s unwanted blood and did somethg about llaboratn wh artist Stuart Semple, we created a llectn of ks and pats ma om the blood of gay Mother act of prott to #unbangayblood—om patgs and graffi, to letters to the FDA—n be amplified wh the Gay Blood Collectn.

Although the FDA recent years overturned s ban on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men who have sex wh men, a facto lifetime ban remas place as perspective donors mt absta om sex for an entire year. Our Blood Can Save Them is currently on display the historic Keh Harrg Bathroom at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York, which nnects his artwork directly to the AIDS epimic that talyzed the gay blood ban and the ongog fight for transgenr rights unfoldg as state legislators across the untry weigh discrimatory bathroom bills. Projects created wh blood donated om the LGBTQ+ muny addrs the gay blood ban, stigma and the ongog fight for equaly.

It is very important to ll attentn to the ways which genr and sexualy are ed to create polici that are not rooted science and data, and which also unrme our untry’s public health and reads for bat, such as the FDA’s s-old gay blood ban and the current admistratn's transgenr ary ban. Salon: Discrimatn by means of blood did not beg wh the gay blood ban. The same is te for the FDA’s current discrimatory blood donatn policy that sentially bans gay and bisexual men om donatg blood — also has no basis science.

THE ARTIST MAKG T-SHIRTS PRTED WH GAY MEN’S BLOOD

Salon: Acrdg to a study om the Williams Instute at UCLA, pletely liftg the gay ban would save as many as 1 ln liv every year.

Instead, they put polici place that generalize and ultimately stigmatize certa groups, such as gay and bisexual men. It would be tertg, for example, if Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is openly gay, ends up on the Democratic ticket. The “Gay Blood Ban” Isn’t Over.

The updated remendatns have been herald the news and by advot alike as an end to the so-lled “gay blood ban. Now, only HIV-negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men who do not e PrEP and who are abstent om anal sex for at least three months, or are a sexually monogamo relatnship (or believe themselv to be), are able to donate blood.

TRY CHURCH ON WALL STREET TO HOST ‘GAY BLOOD’ ARTWORK

—but PrEP is overwhelmgly ed by men, most of whom are gay or bisexual.

The FDA’s new l not only muddle the msage of this val effort, but they mean the policy is not an end to the “gay blood ban” at all, bee so many such men are still exclud—men who, aga, are takg a proactive step to protect their health. It’s unclear exactly how many people take PrEP, but Centers for Disease Control and Preventn data suggts at least 35 percent of gay and bisexual men nsired at “high risk” of HIV do—a cisn health thori endorse.

The agency now ns the risk of stg a shadow on PrEP e and ntug to stigmatize gay and bisexual men—a damagg mistake that this long-awaed change policy was meant to rrect. Wh the natn’s blood supply at s lowt pot a , and the Amerin Red Cross clarg s first-ever natnal blood crisis earlier this month, is time for the Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) to do somethg the AMA and others have urged for years: remove s discrimatory ban that prevents many gay and bisexual men om beg blood donors.