Gay and Bisexual Men Are Now Allowed To Donate Blood In Most Of The U.K. : NPR

Contents:

• GERMANY TO EASE L ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• GERMANY TO LIFT RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS
• GERMANY TO LIFT RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS: REPORT
• WHAT ARE THE BLOOD DONATN L GLOBALLY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN?
• WHICH UNTRI PROHIB GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN OM DONATG BLOOD?
• GERMANY TO EASE L ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• GERMANY PH TO END GAY BLOOD DONOR DISCRIMATN
• PLASMA DONATN REFERRAL FOR GAY MEN REMAS OPEN EU’S BLOOD REVISN
• PRSURE GROWS GERMANY TO END BLOOD DONATN BAN FOR GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE
• CALLS MOUNT TO LIFT BANS ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD AMID RONAVIS
• IKEA AND MICROSOFT JO LL FOR GERMANY TO RELAX BAN ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD
• LET US GIVE BLOOD LLS ON RED CROSS LIFEBLOOD TO FOLLOW GERMANY AND UK BY LIFTG RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD IN ENGLAND, STLAND AND WAL
• GAY MEN NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD MOST COUNTRI
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
• GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN

GERMANY TO EASE L ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

BERLIN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Germany is to relax a ban requirg gay and bisexual men to absta om sex for a year before donatg blood, as the ronavis crisis ramps up prsure on global monogamo same-sex relatnships will face no rtrictns when donatg blood, acrdg to a new risk asssment by the health mistry and the German Medil Associatn, seen by the Thomson Rters who engage sexual activy wh more than one man or wh a new male partner and straight people wh “equently changg partners” will have to wa four months before beg allowed to donate blood, the 77-page document says. “Blood isn’t gay or straight.

GERMANY TO LIFT RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS

The l date back to the HIV/AIDS epimic the 1980s, when gay men were thought to rry a higher risk of passg on the vis. The German Lbian and Gay Associatn (LSVD) weled the plans, llg them "long overdue".

GERMANY TO LIFT RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS: REPORT

Acrdg to current guil om the German Medil Associatn (BAK), men who have sex wh men are only allowed to donate blood if they have not had "a new or more than one sexual partner" the past four people are asssed on whether they are "equently changg partners" l date back to the HIV/AIDS epimic the 1980s, when gay men were thought to rry a higher risk of passg on the the new l, potential donors will be asssed only on the "basis of the dividual behavur of the person willg to donate", acrdg to amendment to the law will e to force on April 1, after which the BAK will have four months to e up wh new guil, the report German Lbian and Gay Associatn (LSVD) weled the plans, llg them "long overdue".

(This May 11 story rrects date and time reference for France fal par)LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Countri around the world are reviewg rtrictns on blood donatns by gay and bisexual men imposed durg the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis, wh some removg blanket bans and others rcg wag perds after gay ’s Supreme Court led on Friday that a 12-month ferral perd for gay and bi men to give blood was unnstutnal, a policy LGBT+ mpaigners had long argued was discrimatory given morn blood-screeng now, Brazil’s ernment will have to treat gay and bisexual men the same as heterosexual men when donatg blood. It uld wre a new law that restat the ban, but s posn is not yet blood suppli have e unr prsure due to the ronavis panmic, lls have grown for ernments to replace abstence perds for men who have sex wh men to donate blood wh dividual risk-based month, the Uned Stat and Northern Ireland cut their abstence perds, while Atralia said plans to do are the l erng blood donatn by gay and bi men around the world:- Countri that impose lifelong bans on gay and bisexual men donatg blood clu Croatia, Iceland, Malaysia, Slovenia, Sgapore, Tridad and Tobago and Ukrae- At least 17 untri now have no rtrictns, cludg Argenta, Italy, Rsia, South Ai, Spa and, as of January this year, Hungary- In April 2020, the Uned Stat cut s celibacy perd om 12 months to three months amid a blood shortage- Last month, Northern Ireland also rced s ferral perd om one year to three months, brgg to le wh regulatns the rt of the Uned Kgdom- Some untri differentiate between blood products and blood general, but Bra men who have had sex wh another man the last three months and revered om Covid-19 nnot donate their plasma to a ronavis treatment trial- Most untri do not mentn whether takg Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a HIV-preventn dg, affects gay and bi men’s abily to donate blood. Bra says s three-month abstence perd appli regardls of whether someone tak PrEP or not- When Atralia announced s tentn to cut the abstence perd om 12 months to three April, said people takg PrEP would still have a 12-month abstence perd- Atria lifted a blanket ban on men who have sex wh men givg blood, replacg wh a 12-month abstence perd for gay and bi men December 2019- In March, Denmark lifted s lifelong ban, implementg a prevly announced wag perd of four months- France has had a wag perd of 12 months sce 2016, when lifted a ban on gay and bisexual men givg blood that had been place sce 1983Sourc: Thomson Rters Foundatn rearch, RtersReportg by Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage and Elsa Ohlen; Addnal reportg by Fab Teixeira; Edg by Helen Popper and Hugo Greenhalgh.

WHAT ARE THE BLOOD DONATN L GLOBALLY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN?

It scribed how the disease attacks the immune system and listed the groups most at risk, cludg gay men who had several sexual partners and traveno dg ers. But on June 14th Bra swched to an dividual risk-asssment system for all as scientists have learned more about HIV/AIDS— is transmted via bodily fluids and n afflict people of any sexualy—many untri have remaed ut about blood donatn by gay and bisexual men. Why are there no openly gay players ele men's tennis?

WHICH UNTRI PROHIB GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN OM DONATG BLOOD?

Gay and bisexual men monogamo same-sex relatnships will face no rtrictns when donatg bloodBy Enrique Anarte. BERLIN, June 29 (Openly) - Germany is to relax a ban requirg gay and bisexual men to absta om sex for a year before donatg blood, as the ronavis crisis ramps up prsure on global suppli. "Blood isn't gay or straight.

GERMANY TO EASE L ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

Eas ban on gay blood donors amid ronavis.

Atralia mov to ease l on gay blood donors. Calls mount to lift bans on gay men givg blood amid ronavis. S., the Red Cross, along wh One Blood, Valant and partner LGBTQ+ muny health centers, are participatg a pilot study fund by the FDA select ci that uld potentially lead to chang for blood donor eligibily creria for gay and bisexual men.

German Health Mister Karl Lterbach said that the future gay blood donors would be asssed only on their dividual risk behavr. New Zealand, Bra ease l on blood donatns by gay men. Short of blood, US relax rtrictns on gay donors.

GERMANY PH TO END GAY BLOOD DONOR DISCRIMATN

UK eas curbs on blood donatns for gay, bisexual men.

PLASMA DONATN REFERRAL FOR GAY MEN REMAS OPEN EU’S BLOOD REVISN

Currently, gay men nnot donate blood for a perd of four months if they eher had a new sexual partner or more than one sexual partner that time. "Very good, " Lehmann tweeted while addg that blood donor discrimatn regards to gay and bisexual men and trans people will soon end. The Lbian and Gay Feratn Germany weled Lterbach's cisn to alter existg law regardg blood transfns but lled the move "long overdue.

In other untri such as Belgium, Germany and Atria, blood donatn by homosexuals is still subject to certa ndns.

A blanket excln of gays and transgenr people reprents discrimatn whout medil necsy - and aggravat Germany’s shortage of life-savg blood donatns - acrdg to the proposal acquired by Spiegel Onle.

PRSURE GROWS GERMANY TO END BLOOD DONATN BAN FOR GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE

Acrdg the FDP proposal, an explic signatn of homosexual and transgenr people as a risk group is an unjtified and discrimatory generalizatn. NEW YORK/BERLIN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Andreas, a gay man livg Berl, wants to donate blood but he is not allowed.

Germany’s l require that gay or bisexual men absta om sex for at least 12 months before donatg due to ncerns over exposure to given the prsur on the blood suppli as ronavis lockdowns prevent new donors g forward, Andreas, who did not want to give his surname, has a solutn - lie. Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) cut a 12-month wag perd for gay and bisexual men givg blood to three months, havg reported a dramatic slump donatns due to social distancg and the ncellatn of blood untri troduced blood donatn ntrols the wake of the HIV/AIDS epimic the 1980s when fected blood, donated by dg ers and prisoners, ntamated Prof.

Bra and Canada require gay and bisexual men to absta om sex for three months before donatg.

CALLS MOUNT TO LIFT BANS ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD AMID RONAVIS

Sgapore and Greece are among the untri that ban men who have same-sex sexual relatns om donatg blood Uned Stat ially imposed a total ban on gay and bisexual men donatg blood 1985 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epimic but eased the l 2015 to a 12-month wa. “We will keep fightg until the ferral perd is lifted and gay and bi men, and all LGBTQ people, are treated equal to others, ” GLAAD Print Sarah Kate Ellis said a ’s Feral Mistry of Health cled to ment, but officials Atria said ronavis ncerns would not fluence official policy on donatns om gay or bisexual men.

“The qualy assurance of blood and blood products mt always be a prry, ” a spokperson at the Atrian Feral Health Mistry told the Thomson Rters rat among gay and bisexual men wtern untri have cled followg wispread ttg and the advent of PrEP, a daily pill that prevents the transmissn of the vis by as much as Bra, new HIV diagnos fell by 71% between 2012 and 2018, acrdg to figur released by Public Health England.

Jack Turban, a rint physician psychiatry at Massachetts General Hospal, who ntracted ronavis and revered, the answer is simple - pary between straight and gay men when to givg blood. “Every time there’s a crisis (and a) shortage, gay and bisexual men want to help, ” Turban said. BERLIN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A group of 13 pani cludg IKEA and Microsoft have lled on the German ernment to relax a ban requirg gay and bisexual men to absta om sex for a year before donatg blood as the ronavis crisis puts prsure on pani, which also clud software group SAP and tra operator Dtsche Bahn, published an open letter askg medil thori to ease rtrictns “to brg together the goal of secury blood donatns and the mands for eedom om discrimatn”.

IKEA AND MICROSOFT JO LL FOR GERMANY TO RELAX BAN ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD

Germany’s Feral Mistry of Health was not immediately available for on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men vary globally.

The Atralian blood donatn body is beg lled on to follow several natns amendg the donatn ban placed on gay and bisexual men and transexual women who have terurse wh men. Germany recently moved to troduce legislatn that would remove the ban on gay donors place of an dividual risk asssment based on sexual activy, DW News Atralian Red Cross Lifeblood’s l do not allow men who have engaged same sex terurse wh the past three months, a perd that was rced om 12 months 2021, to donate Us Give Blood spokperson Thomas Buxere said Germany was jog an “ever-growg” list of untri who had abandoned the “archaic ban” on donatn for gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex wh men. "In 2021 the Uned Kgdom moved om an tomatic 3 month ferral policy for gay men to asssg each donor dividually on their own experienc rather than the sex of their who engage terurse wh men and have had the same partner for three months or more and meet an eligibily creria are able to give are also a seri of other natns who have taken a siar approach to make blood donatns more accsible.

LET US GIVE BLOOD LLS ON RED CROSS LIFEBLOOD TO FOLLOW GERMANY AND UK BY LIFTG RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS

LifeBlood has said is nsirg the dividual asssment mol for gay men but is still wag for s rearch to be pleted. "Our prelimary mollg shows that allowg self-clared, monogamo gay men to donate would slightly crease the (very small) risk of beg fected wh HIV through a blood transfn, creasg the risk om once about 31 years to up to once about 18 years, " Lifeblood's webse reads.

Germany has allowed gay and bisexual men to donate blood sce 2017. In effect, this still bars most gay and bisexual men om blood donatn, which is an ongog subject of prott Hamburg and throughout the untryHow n I prepare for donatn?

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.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD IN ENGLAND, STLAND AND WAL

So monogamo gay men uld start donatg blood aga sometime 2023.

Gay and bisexual men England, Stland, and Wal n now donate blood, plasma and platelets unr certa circumstanc whout havg to wa three months, the Natnal Health Service announced this week.

Gay and bisexual men England, Stland, and Wal n now donate blood, plasma and platelets unr certa circumstanc, the Natnal Health Service announced this week a momento shift policy for most of the U. Begng Monday, gay men sexually active, monogamo relatnships for at least three months n donate for the first time. S, the abily for gay and bisexual men to donate blood is still rtricted.

GAY MEN NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD MOST COUNTRI

A ban on gay and bisexual blood donors has been effect sce the early 1980s when fears about HIV/AIDS were wispread.

15 Aug Gay Men Now Allowed to Donate Blood Most Countri.

UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS

Back the 1980s, this led to a ban on gay men donatg blood bee people were worried about AIDS and HIV spreadg. The Ban on Gay Men Donatg Blood. At the begng of the AIDS epimic, seemed like a good ia to ban gay men om donatg blood.

It has been over twenty years, and now lawmakers are thkg aga about whether gay men should be allowed to donate blood.

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

France recently lifted the ban on gay men donatg blood bee they realized was wrong to assume that all gay dividuals have HIV. In Atralia and other untri, they have set up wag perds, which means gay men n donate blood after a certa amount of time whout dog certa activi. The goal is to lift the ban on gay men donatg blood more plac the future, so that everyone who is eligible n donate, no matter their sexual orientatn.

The rensiratn of the ban on gay men donatg blood shows that we’ve ma progrs unrstandg how HIV spreads.

Gay men who were once unable to donate blood were able to participate blood driv for the very first time.