Urgg Support for the Natnal Gay Blood Drive | Congrsman Mike Quigley

Contents:

• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• URGG SUPPORT FOR THE NATNAL GAY BLOOD DRIVE
• GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

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.

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. 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.

URGG SUPPORT FOR THE NATNAL GAY BLOOD DRIVE

Reprentativ Mike Quigley (IL-05) spoke out agast the blood ban agast gay donors and to urge support for the Natnal Gay Blood is a vio and transcript of the Speaker, I rise today strong support of the Natnal Gay Blood Drive, bee I know that that beg gay do not implicly make someone an unsafe blood current FDA policy pats all gay and bisexual men wh the same bsh, banng them for life based solely on orientatn stead of focg on actual risky Friday at Natnal Gay Blood Driv 61 ci across our untry, gay and bisexual men will stand wh straight alli to ll for an end to this discrimatory policy. A revisn blood donatg agenci n no longer treat gay and bisexual men as send class cizens or turn away healthy would be donors who uld be providg lifavg blood.

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

I urge all of my lleagu to support the Natnal Gay Blood Drive and help Ameri move one step closer to te equaly for all.

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