Blood Donatn by Gay and Bisexual Men

Contents:

• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE
• FDA PROPOS EASG BLOOD DONATN L FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• WORKG TOGETHER FOR CHANG TO BLOOD DONOR ELIGIBILY FOR GAY AND BI MEN
• FDA EAS RTRICTNS ON GAY BLOOD DONORS AMID 'URGENT NEED'
• FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• HEALTH EXPERTS URGE FDA TO AX 'OUTDATED' GAY BLOOD DONOR RTRICTNS
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS

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

Why nt gay people donate blood? Straight men or women and gay women n do thgs sexually volvg the butthole.

As a gay man if you want to donate blood you basilly have to practice abstence. CMV: Gay people should be allowed to give blood. How n they discrimate and be homophobic?

Apparently gay mal are at high risk of STIs, oh sure bee all gay men sleep around and are fect, but no heterosexuals are all perfect. This law will have turned down so many good, willg blood donors, but they n't help bee they're gay.

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

The only difference between a gay man and a straight man is who they are attracted to, not their bodi, not their bra, not their speci and certaly not their blood.

Gays and straights are exactly the same blogilly and have equal health potential.

Everyone is at equal risk of gettg an STI and if you aren't reful 's YOUR flt, not bee you're gay, not bee you're straight, bee you weren't ut. They die bee blood was not allowed to be given, that donor was a gay. Discrimatg bee someone homosexual is absolutely disgtg.

BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE

Change my view, gays should be allowed to give blood. Instead of gays, the way 's put across don't seem right to be but ah well! LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

I unrstand that there is an creased risk of HIV gay men, but don't they tt your blood anyways? In 2016, 39, 782 people were diagnosed wh HIV, 67% of which were gay/bisexual men. 1 ln people, the 26, 654 gay/bisexual men who have HIV make up a mcule part of that populatn,.

FDA to ease blood donatn ban on gay men, allow monogamo to give.

FDA PROPOS EASG BLOOD DONATN L FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

TIL that homosexuals are not allowed to donate blood Canada, the Uned Stat, Germany, and many other untri.

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. 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.

WORKG TOGETHER FOR CHANG TO BLOOD DONOR ELIGIBILY FOR GAY AND BI MEN

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. 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. 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.

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

Let them know you don’t support discrimatory practic that ban gay and bisexual men om dog their civic duty. 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. For the first time, the Bin admistratn is mentg on the Food and Dg Admistratn's long-time blood donatn guil, which are impactg the LGBTQ+ muny by preventg gay and bisexual men om beg eligible blood statement, ma by a Whe Hoe official exclively to ABC News, acknowledg the paful origs of the policy and on the heels of the Amerin Red Cross clarg their first-ever natnal blood crisis last week, as suppli at hospals and blood banks bee dangeroly low.

FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Policy holds that sexually active gay or bisexual men mt absta om sex for at least three months before they're allowed to donate blood. The le appli to gay and bisexual men who are monogamo and those who tt HIV negative and are practicg safe sex.

BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

It also clus gay and bisexual COVID-19 survivors who wish to donate nvalcent plasma, rich wh antibodi, for ’s PicksThe rtrictn on blood donatns me out of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, when limed ttg technology and pacy existed to screen blood for HIV.

In 1983, the FDA implemented a lifetime ban on blood donatns om all men who had sex wh men after FDA removed the lifetime ban and enacted a 12-month ferral perd 2015, meang gay or bisexual men had to absta om havg sex wh other men for at least 12 months before donatg blood. The Food and Dg Admistratn on Friday proposed easg blood donatn guil for gay and bisexual current l, the FDA allows donatns om gay and bisexual men if they haven't had sex wh another man for three a draft proposal posted to the agency's webse, the FDA said the new l would allow anyone to donate blood — regardls of genr or sexual orientatn — as long as they haven't engaged certa sexual behavrs the last three months. That would mean most gay and bisexual men who are a monogamo relatnship wh another man will no longer need to absta om sex to donate blood.

HEALTH EXPERTS URGE FDA TO AX 'OUTDATED' GAY BLOOD DONOR RTRICTNS

”The agency's rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men stem om the AIDS crisis, which began the early 1980s, when ltle was known about the vis. Advocy groups and medil anizatns, cludg the Amerin Red Cross, have urged the FDA to lift rtrictns on blood donatns for gay and bisexual men, sayg the practice is discrimatory and has ntributed to shortag the blood supply the Uned Stat.

He also wants to be a blood donor, but as a gay man, he is currently not eligible.

The ADVANCE Study (Asssg Donor Variabily and New Concepts Eligibily) is a pilot study sponsored by the FDA, which will terme if different eligibily creria for gay and bisexual men n be ed at blood centers natnwi. The study has a goal to enroll a mimum total of 2, 000 gay and bisexual men across eight study lotns and is currently schled to nclu September 2022. Help ntribute data for the FDA that uld lead to chang donor eligibily for gay and bisexual men.

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

Amid what ’s llg an “urgent need for blood, ” the Food and Dg Admistratn revised s blood donor guil on Thursday, signifintly easg the rtrictns on men who have sex wh new guil rce the donatn ferral perd for sexually active gay and bisexual men om 12 months to three, meang the otherwise healthy men will now have to absta om same-sex sexual activy for 90 days before they are eligible to donate 12-month ferral perds have also been shortened unr the new guil, cludg those for people who have traveled to areas wh certa enmic diseas, those who have engaged jectn dg e and people who have participated mercial sex work. Rtrictns on gay blood donors date to 1983, durg the height of the AIDS crisis, when the feral ernment stuted a lifetime ban on blood donatns by any man who had ever had sex wh another man. The le, tend to keep HIV out of the blood supply, was replaced 2015 wh the year-long abstence to the release of Thursday’s updated guil, rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men — who reprent about 70 percent of all new HIV fectns the U.

”As NBC News reported on Wednday, at least one gay man who tried to donate blood to give COVID-19 plasma antibodi was told that he was disqualified for 12 months bee he tak Tvada to rema HIV-negative. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., who led the effort by a group of 15 senators to ease the gay donor rtrictns, lled the FDA’s new guil “an important step” but said there’s “still more work to be done. ”“The admistratn needs to change their blood donatn polici to be based on dividual risk so that all healthy gay and bisexual men are able to donate, ” she said a statement shared wh NBC News.

The Food and Dg Admistratn has dropped all rtrictns specific to gay and bisexual men donatg blood, a move long anticipated by public health experts and gay rights new guidance, first proposed January and falized Thursday, will not rtrict donatns based on someone's sexual orientatn or genr inty, and stead move towards an "dividual risk-based" approach to rce the risk of accintal HIV fectn through the blood donatn FDA origally banned donatns om gay and bisexual men the midst of the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis.