The L.A. LGBT Center has joed a natnwi effort to rec between 250 and 300 gay and bisexual men, ag 18 to 39, a study aimed at fdg better ways to screen potential blood donors.
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- GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN HAVE LONG BEEN RTRICTED AS BLOOD DONORS. A NEW STUDY COULD CHANGE THAT
- WAS AN ATLANTA MAN ASSLTED AND RAPED BY GAY GANG THE 'SWEET BLOODS'?
- LA COUNTY LLS FOR END TO BLOOD DONOR RTRICTNS ON GAY/BISEXUAL MEN
GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
Gay and bisexual men are still rtricted om givg blood, a move that LGBTQ activists ll discrimatory. * la gay bloods *
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.
Durg the panmic a cril need for blood donatns spurred relaxatn of some of the regulatns on gay and bisexual men donatg blood. The FDA banned blood donatns om gay and bisexual men the early 1980s, over fears about the spread of HIV/AIDS. And while the feral ernment somewhat relaxed those l last year, due to blood supply shortag as a rult of the COVID-19 panmic, advot have worked for years to change that policy for good — sayg stigmatiz people livg wh HIV, and discrimat agast men who intify as gay or bisexual.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN HAVE LONG BEEN RTRICTED AS BLOOD DONORS. A NEW STUDY COULD CHANGE THAT
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Department of Health and Human Servic to further ease l on gay and bisexual men donatg blood. Center is one of eight natnwi rponsible for recg between 250 and 300 gay and bisexual men, ag 18 to 39. 21, a gay man who is print, -founr and executive director of the Pomona Pri Center.
I filled out a qutnnaire and they said, ‘We don’t allow dividuals who are gay to donate’. Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA), which overse the natn’s blood supply, issued draft guil that would allow gay men monogamo relatnships to donate blood.
WAS AN ATLANTA MAN ASSLTED AND RAPED BY GAY GANG THE 'SWEET BLOODS'?
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7, has raised qutns and more opposn than support om the LGBTQ muny, who say the FDA proposal don’t erase the stigma placed on potential gay blood donors and retas s-old bans based on sexual orientatn alone. As a senr at Baldw Park High School and an Associated Stunt Body member back 2012, Caa Camaleon, at the time a gay male who is now a transgenr female, remembers beg unable to give blood at a school blood drive she anized as an 18-year-old.
Gay rights groups have long opposed blanket rtrictns on who n give blood, sayg they are discrimatory.
LA COUNTY LLS FOR END TO BLOOD DONOR RTRICTNS ON GAY/BISEXUAL MEN
The policy would also apply to women who have sex wh gay or bisexual men. Lambda Legal, a gay rights anizatn that has long phed to change the FDA policy, weled the change.
One le the gay activists want changed is the blanket ban on anyone takg pills to prevent HIV through sexual ntact, at least until three months after their last dose.
Abrigo said banng gay men who are g an FDA-approved prcriptn to prevent ntractg HIV sends the wrong msage.