Gay and bisexual men are still rtricted om givg blood, a move that LGBTQ activists ll discrimatory.
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- 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
- MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
- AMERIN RED CROSS FIGHTS BAN ON GAYS' BLOOD
- COLUMN: TWO GAY MEN WALK TO A RED CROSS BLOOD DONATN CENTER ...
- WHY DO FDA BAN ‘GAY’ BLOOD?
- FDA EAS BLOOD DONATN BAN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AFTER YEARS OF PROTT
- CRICS LL TO END THREE-MONTH CELIBACY REQUIREMENT FOR GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AMID BLOOD SHORTAGE
- THE “GAY BLOOD BAN” ISN’T OVER
- THE RED CROSS IS CHANGG S POLICY ON BLOOD DONATNS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN
- ADVANCE STUDY ON DONATN ELIGIBILY REQUIREMENTS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
Learn about feral regulatns related to blood donatn by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Genr non-nformg (LGBTQ+) dividuals. * red cross gay blood ban *
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. 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.
BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE
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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.
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.
MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
For the first time, the Bin admistratn is mentg on the Food and Dg Admistratn’s long-time blood donatn guil impactg gay men. * red cross gay blood ban *
It also clus gay and bisexual COVID-19 survivors who wish to donate nvalcent plasma, rich wh antibodi, for 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 (FDA) said Thursday had officially elimated rtrictns that had prevly prohibed many blood donatns by gay and bisexual men — a longstandg policy that crics say is discrimatory.
AMERIN RED CROSS FIGHTS BAN ON GAYS' BLOOD
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. * red cross gay blood ban *
Wh the updated guil, most gay and bisexual men who are a monogamo relatnship wh a man will no longer have to rea om sex orr to donate blood. Print and CEO of GLAAD Sarah Kate Ellis echoed that approval a statement, sayg "The FDA's cisn to follow science and issue new remendatns for all Amerins, regardls of sexual orientatn, who selflsly donate blood to help save liv, signals the begng of the end of a dark and discrimatory past rooted fear and homophobia, " However, Ellis said while the new guidance is a step the right directn, there is still a barrier for LGBTQ+ people who are on PrEP, an FDA-approved dg proven to prevent the transmissn of HIV, who may want to donate 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.
So to give you an example, take a gay male uple that's been together for 20 years, and they have a monogamo relatnship and they have tted negative for HIV. I'm ncerned that they haven't perhaps ma as much effort as they should have to make sure that the policy is science based, bee the subject here is gay men.
COLUMN: TWO GAY MEN WALK TO A RED CROSS BLOOD DONATN CENTER ...
For two s, the Food and Dg Admistratn has prohibed gay and bisexual men om givg blood as a preutn agast AIDS. But three major blood llectn agenci, cludg the Amerin Red Cross, argue the practice is no longer warranted. The FDA disagre. Joel Gsberg, head of the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn, says the ban unfairly discrimat. * red cross gay blood ban *
Bee somehow movg down that path terms of human st would be unacceptable, and I wonr why we don't have the same standards for gay men. Our posn is simply that the same creria should be ed for gay men as are ed for other groups, and our sense is that that's not the se now. MARTIN: Given a number of other sort of social and health ncerns that gay men already face, why is this an issue for you to take on, for your anizatn to take on?
WHY DO FDA BAN ‘GAY’ BLOOD?
For s, fears over HIV tatg the blood supply all but banned gay men at Red Cross donatn centers. Now that the l are changg, a Malibu uple joed a blood drive * red cross gay blood ban *
GINSBERG: When gay men's bodi are stigmatized as dirty, regardls of the behavr that they make, you're sendg the msage that HIV risks and other risks of sexually transmted diseas is not about your behavr.
FDA EAS BLOOD DONATN BAN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AFTER YEARS OF PROTT
Gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships uld donate blood whout abstag om sex unr an FDA proposal, endg a vtige of the earlit days of the AIDS crisis. * red cross gay blood ban *
It's the general stigmatizatn of gay men that lower qualy of re to be livered to gay men and gay men to avoid seekg re the first place.
CRICS LL TO END THREE-MONTH CELIBACY REQUIREMENT FOR GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AMID BLOOD SHORTAGE
Amid a natnal blood shortage, lawmakers and LGBTQ advot are llg on the FDA to ease donor rtrictns on gay and bisexual men. * red cross gay blood ban *
MARTIN: I thk that the qutn that many people would have is - and I unrstand that you're not a doctor - but do you believe that gay men who are engaged safe sex practic nsistently n safely donate blood? There's absolutely no risk for a gay man who is HIV-negative and only have safe sex wh other people who are HIV-negative or who has any kd of sex wh men who are HIV negative - 's scientifilly impossible for that person to ntract HIV or to spread . Given all the ways that people n opt out whout stigma, is still the se that gay men are sgled out by their - by the cisn to not allow them to donate as a group?
THE “GAY BLOOD BAN” ISN’T OVER
The agency n't qu blanket bans that target gay and bisexual men. * red cross gay blood ban *
Afterward, they snacked on mi-Oreos and sipped om ty juice all seemed very this was a totally new experience for Jeremy Walker, 55, and his hband, Judd Stark, 59, gay men who me of age at the ighteng dawn of the AIDS era. Five years later, amid the COVID- 19 panmic 2020, the FDA shortened the abstence perd to three jt last month, the agency falized new guil for termg the eligibily of each prospective blood donor — not jt gay men or, say, sex workers — dividually, wh a seri of qutns about their recent sexual history.
THE RED CROSS IS CHANGG S POLICY ON BLOOD DONATNS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
The Amerin Red Cross has partnered wh the FDA and several other blood centers for the ADVANCE Study to gather data that uld lead to chang donor eligibily for gay and bisexual men and the LGBTQ+ muny. * red cross gay blood ban *
“I haven’t ed the word ‘anal’ this much sce the ’80’s, ” Stark joked wele change public policy at a time when gay and trans rights are creasgly unr attack, empowered by an ultranservative Supreme Court. Blood supply is dangeroly low bee of a sharp drop donatns durg the COVID-19 so, gay and bisexual men, clilly referred to as “men who have sex wh men” or MSM, are still beg told that their blood is too “dangero” to donate. MSM mt be celibate for three months to give blood bee of a Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) policy datg back 40 years to the onset of the AIDS ban do harm by perpetuatg the stigma that HIV/AIDS is a “gay disease, ” said Jason Cianctto, GMHC’s vice print of munitns and policy.
“It suggts there is somethg herently wrong and ‘dirty’ about gay and bisexual men that mak them diseased and dangero to others. People livg wh HIV also n’t FDA’s blanket ferral clus many HIV-negative people wh a low-to-zero risk of HIV fectn, and accurately suggts all gay and bisexual men are livg wh stance, although Cianctto and his hband are not an open relatnship, the three-month celibacy perd still appli.
IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN
Amid crisis natn’s blood supply, ’s time to pursue a ratnal approach and stop policy that prevents many gay and bisexual men om givg blood. * red cross gay blood ban *
Dpe enormo advanc scientific knowledge about HIV transmissn and the advent of highly accurate blood screeng tts, the FDA has not changed s policy targetg gay and bisexual HIV and AIDS was rrectly labeled a “gay disease” the early 1980s, the FDA imposed a lifetime blood donatn ban on any man who’d had sex wh another man sce 1977, along wh sex workers, traveno dg ers and people livg wh HIV. This wdow is signifintly ls than the three months of celibacy required by the ’s roleFor s, GMHC has been fightg the discrimatory ban bee falsely stigmatiz gay and bisexual men as rriers of a “gay disease. Prompted by the COVID-19 epimic, the FDA December 2020 signed off on a pilot study for three major blood centers, the Amerin Red Cross, Valant and OneBlood, to do jt ADVANCE Study is recg 2, 000 gay and bisexual men eight ci to supply a blood sample and answer behavral qutns about HIV risk factors.
ADVANCE STUDY ON DONATN ELIGIBILY REQUIREMENTS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
A policy change years the makg, on Thursday Health Canada approved Canadian Blood Servic' submissn to elimate the three-month donor ferral perd for gay and bisexual men as well as some other folks the LGBTQ2S+ muny. * red cross gay blood ban *
They have not yet been able to rec the requise 2000 gay and bisexual men, perhaps bee the study self, by focg solely on this populatn, perpetuat the stigma of “gay blood.
LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
Learn more about the current feral policy on gay and bisexual men donatg blood. * red cross gay blood ban *
”“At a time when I was still figurg out my inty, the ernment was affirmg harmful thgs I had been raised to believe about myself: If you are gay, you will die alone om AIDS, ” he hasn’t been advotg all the years to endg the discrimatory ferral perd jt so gay and bisexual men n give blood, Cianctto said. ”Thirty years after Cianctto’s troublg experience, a gay male teen tryg to do their civic duty and give blood will still be asked if they’ve had sex wh a man—and turned away if the answer is y. ”Photo: Blood Mirror is a sculpture and llaborative project by Jordan Eagl, created wh 59 blood donatns om gay, bisexual, and transgenr men.