Long cricized as discrimatory, the policy has prevented many gay and bisexual men om donatg blood. The Food and Dg Admistratn revealed a draft of s new approach on Friday.
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- END OF BLANKET RTRICTN ON GAY BLOOD DONORS TO FACE KEY FERAL VOTE NEXT YEAR
- IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN
- SCIENCE, POLICS, AND THE END OF THE LIFELONG GAY BLOOD DONOR BAN
- MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
END OF BLANKET RTRICTN ON GAY BLOOD DONORS TO FACE KEY FERAL VOTE NEXT YEAR
Gay men still not eligible to donate blood.
IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN
Study lls on gay men to donate blood effort to reasss FDA rtrictns. A panel of feral advisers uld vote early next year on new remendatns about the natn's blood supply, the Bin admistratn says, one of the key fal hurdl to endg a sweepg feral ban on blood donatns om sexually active gay men.
The vote expected at the sprg meetg of the Advisory Commtee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availabily (ACBTSA) would e after the panel is able to review forthg data om the Food and Dg Admistratn's ADVANCE FDA announced last week that now thks the study's rults "will likely support" replacg the blanket ban, which currently requir gay men to absta om sex for at least three months before donatg blood.
SCIENCE, POLICS, AND THE END OF THE LIFELONG GAY BLOOD DONOR BAN
If the mtee next year backs liftg the rtrictns, the move would mark one of the last steps to undog a ntroversial policy, first troduced the 1980s and endorsed by the panel as recently as 2010, which had imposed a lifetime ban on gay men donatg blood. Incredibly, regulatns put place durg the gay panic that characterized the emergence of HIV/AIDS are still spirually place today — and if the natn’s regulatory bodi are ser about endg this blood crisis, the first people they should be lookg to is queer 1986, followg years of polil prsure om all sis of the Amerin polil spectm, the FDA officially began ferrg cisgenr men who had had sex wh another man (MSM) om blood donatn, wh the ban place if they’d had gay sex om 1977 onward.
MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
In 1992, mandatory guil stuted a lifetime ban for gay men. In the meantime, heterosexual people who have equent unprotected sex are still seen as safer blood donors on paper than any given gay or bi man who is a monogamo legacy of gay panic that prompted the ial bans the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was still assumed to be a disease uniquely plagug the gay male muny, is still very much alive the “progrsive” half measur.