Gay Blood Donatn Ban Is Ineffective, Health Canada Documents Show

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. * canadian blood services gay *

Canadian Blood Servic now allows some gay, bisexual men to donate plasma Calgary, London, blood service has suggted that the new screeng qutns be changed to foc on risk, not sexual potential donors would be asked if they have had new or multiple sexual partners. If they answer y, they would then be asked if they have had anal troduced a lifetime ban for gay men 1992. Calgary paramedic 'elated' as Canada ends blood ban for men who have sex wh menBlood service remends endg ban on gay men donatg bloodInstead of beg asked about genr or sexualy, potential donors will be screened on higher-risk sexual behavur, such as anal sex.

Christopher Karas, who filed a human rights plat agast Health Canada to remove the ferral, says the policy still stigmatiz gay, bisexual men, and some transgenr people. Christopher Karas, a gay man who filed a human rights plat agast Health Canada, says the new policy still stigmatiz gay and bisexual men. (Evan Msui/CBC)"But I know that a lot of gay, bi men and trans people will still be barred by this policy, so I thk 's a b unfortunate that the ernment has cid this is the approach they want to take, " said Karas.

Prevly, the feral ernment has tried to block Karas's urt challenge that argu Health Canada is discrimatg agast gay men by overseeg a ban that prevents men who have sex wh other men om donatg blood.

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ListenThere's no reason for Canada to ntue banng gay men om donatg blood, says journalistPEERS Alliance says end to ban on gay blood donatn has been 'a long time g'When prsed by reporters on whether Health Canada played a plic role the discrimatory policy, T said scientific evince was need and didn't exist. OTTAWA (AP) — Health Canada on Thursday lifted rtrictns on gay men donatg blood, a move Prime Mister Jt T said was “good news for all Canadians” but had taken too long. Health Canada approved the requt by Canadian Blood Servic to end the policy that rtricts homosexuals om donatg blood for three months after engagg gay sex.

The policy began 1992 as an outright ban on gay men donatg blood followg a tated blood sndal.

Several chang were later ma to the blood donatn regime until ferral perds for donatns by gay men were lowered om a lifetime ban to three months 2019. “To remove this part that was discrimatory towards men who have sex wh men, gay men and bisexuals, ’s a step the right directn for the LGBTQ2S+ people this untry. We know that the slow pace of chang to donor creria that have exclud many gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men has been paful and tratg for many.

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Blood products beme regulated by the natnal blood system regulator, Health Canada, and the crern affectg gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men was ‘grandfathered’ to existg regulatns.

Open this photo gallery:A blood donor clic at a shoppg mall McIntosh/The Canadian PrsAn end to the ban on gay and bisexual men om donatg blood – promised by Prime Mister Jt T 2015 – is set to be remend wh weeks favour of new screeng creria based on sexual history and behavur.

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But anyone who has had anal sex wh a new partner or multiple partners the prev three months – regardls of their partner’s genr – mt wa three months before stands now Canada, a gay man who has had sex wh one partner the last three months nnot give blood, but a straight man n, no matter how many partners he has had sex wh durg the same time Canadian Blood Servic tts all of s donated blood products for a whole host of diseas, cludg HIV, the agency says no tt is 100 per cent ’s why eligibily screeng is such an important part of limg the risk to blood recipients, acrdg to the agency’s Lachowsky, who did not ment on the specific qutns that will be clud the Canadian proposal, said a ntral approach mak much more sense than basg rtrictns on genr and sexualy.

NEWS IN VICTORIA: IN-DEPTH REPORTING AND LONGFORM JOURNALISMEE DAILY NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBESUBSCRIBEOUR TEAMWHO ARE WEWORK WH USADVERTISESUBM NEWS TIPSNEWSLETTERHEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S TRANS MUNY ARE ADVOTG FOR THE ELIMATN OF ‘DISCRIMATORY’ AND ‘FEAR-BASED’ BLOOD DONATN POLICIBY PHILIP MCLACHLANNOVEMBER 16, 2021HEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S TRANS MUNY ARE ADVOTG FOR THE ELIMATN OF ‘DISCRIMATORY’ AND ‘FEAR-BASED’ BLOOD DONATN POLICIBY PHILIP MCLACHLANNOV 16, 2021JACK EDWARDS, A TRANS MAN, SAYS HE WANTS CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC TO CHANGE S POLICI AROUND TRANS DONORS. PHOTO: PHILIP MCLACHLAN / CAPAL DAILYCAPAL DAILY IS PART OF THE TST PROJECTLATTCOVIDTRANSPORTATNBSHOGGOOD NEWSJACK EDWARDS, A TRANS MAN, SAYS HE WANTS CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC TO CHANGE S POLICI AROUND TRANS DONORS. PHOTO: PHILIP MCLACHLAN / CAPAL DAILYCAPAL DAILY IS PART OF THE TST PROJECTGET THE NEWS AND EVENTS VICTORIA, YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG.I NSENT TO RECEIVG EMAILS OM THE CAPAL DAILY. I UNRSTAND I N UNSUBSCRIBE AT ANY TIME.THANK YOU! YOUR SUBMISSN HAS BEEN RECEIVED!OOPS! SOMETHG WENT WRONG WHILE SUBMTG THE FORM.LATT NEWSSAANICH PETNS PROVCE FOR MENTAL-HEALTH MEASURINDIGENO PADDLERS PH OFF ON POWERFUL VOYAGE TO RECLAIM NOE CULTURE ACROSS PACIFIC NORTHWTWHAT REALLY GO ON AT THE ROYAL BC MMGREATER VICTORIA RINTS UPSET AFTER GRAPHIC ANTI-ABORTN MAIL SENT TO HOMHEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?

“That means that we’re creasg, my md, the safety of the blood system broadly, ” he T has e unr prsure om MPs and the LGBTQ muny to scrap qutns for donors aimed at gay men. ” The MP has been prsg misters to end the gay and bisexual blood-donatn ban for almost 10 years, and said he did not want further lays by Health Canada to halt an end to the ban.

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“I have argued there are two thgs wrong (wh this policy): rtrictg the blood supply and promotg homophobia, ” he said. We have more evince than ever before, stemmg om the MSM rearch program, ternatnal data and Canada-specific risk mollg, that dit sexual behavur-based screeng will not troduce risk to the blood supply, ” Lewis troduced a lifetime ban for gay men 1992. The procs, which often volv requts for more tailed rmatn, uld take several months to a year before the chang take Dunn, the first openly gay Conservative MP to be elected, said the prime mister should make implementg the blood service’s remendatn “a prry.

”Dunn, who has mpaigned for an end to the gay blood ban for years, said he will keep the prsure on when Parliament returns. ”NDP Lear Jagmeet Sgh said Tuday that the change was “a really important victory” for activists who have mpaigned for an end to the “homophobic practice. The gay blood ban is unnecsary, effective, and poorly targetted, ternal documents om Canada’s public health agency suggt.

They got to work tryg to re-tablish tst the system and, on top of improved ttg and screeng, they banned gay men om donatg the last , the ban has faced opposn as beg effective and anachronistic. A trans man, then, would be subject to the same ban on men who have sex wh Canada not the ternal reports that gay men are the harst-h by HIV, prisg about half of all new fectns.

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”In other words, the donor creria mak a class-based distctn for gay men and their partners, who are more likely to know their HIV stat; but mak no attempt to screen for heterosexual donors, who also reprent a signifint number of new HIV fectns and are ls likely to know their documents note that both Italy and Spa e liftyle-based qutnnair, stead of banng an entire sexualy, to screen for potentially-fect Monday, the Uned Kgdom announced was movg towards a liftyle-based screeng, allowg gay men long-term relatnships to donate blood.

As VICE World News reported 2016, Ottawa has the power to remove the ban, unr sectn 13 of the Blood Regulatns, but choos not Wednday, Conservative Member of Parliament Eric Dunn, the first openly gay MP om the party, stigated the prime mister. In October, their health cric Don Davi put the qutn to Rob Oliphant, a Liberal MP who is, himself, gay and therefore banned om ban, “is not based on science but on stereotype, ” Davi argued.

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“We allow a sexually promiscuo heterosexual man who engag dangero activi to donate blood, but two gay men a lovg, stable, monogamo relatnship are not allowed. Canadian Blood Servic has today remend that Canada end the ban on gay men donatg blood, a submissn to Health McIntosh/The Canadian PrsThe feral ernment will no longer tomatilly ban sexually active gay and bisexual men om donatg blood to Canadian Blood Servic, endg a policy that has long been cricized as discrimatory and lackg scientific Canada announced the cisn Thursday, years after Prime Mister Jt T promised to elimate the ban. Prr to Thursday’s announcement, Canada blocked gay and bisexual men, as well as other men who have sex wh men, om donatg blood unls three months had passed sce their last sexual ntact wh men.

Opn: Canada should have scrapped s homophobic ban on blood donatns om gay men long agoBlood service remends Health Canada end gay blood donatn banCanadian Blood Servic spokperson Cathere Lewis said the new procs is ground science. In 2013, Health Canada said gay men uld donate blood, so long as they had not had sex wh other men the prr five Liberal Party promised to end the ban durg the 2015 electn mpaign that brought the T ernment to power. An end to the ban on gay and bisexual men om donatg blood — promised by Prime Mister Jt T 2015 — is set to be remend wh weeks favour of new screeng creria based on sexual history and behavur.

But anyone who has had anal sex wh a new partner or multiple partners the prev three months _ regardls of their partner’s genr _ mt wa three months before stands now Canada, a gay man who has had sex wh one partner the last three months nnot give blood, but a straight man n, no matter how many partners he has had sex wh durg the same time ame.

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T has e unr prsure om MPs and the LGBTQ muny to scrap qutns for donors aimed at gay men.

” The MP has been prsg misters to end the gay and bisexual blood-donatn ban for almost ten years.

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I have argued there are two thgs wrong (wh this policy): rtrictg the blood supply and promotg homophobia, ” he Canada, which regulat the blood service, n only change the creria if evince is prented showg this will not crease risk.

NEWS IN VICTORIA: IN-DEPTH REPORTING AND LONGFORM JOURNALISMEE DAILY NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBESUBSCRIBEOUR TEAMWHO ARE WEWORK WH USADVERTISESUBM NEWS TIPSNEWSLETTERHEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S TRANS MUNY ARE ADVOTG FOR THE ELIMATN OF ‘DISCRIMATORY’ AND ‘FEAR-BASED’ BLOOD DONATN POLICIBY PHILIP MCLACHLANNOVEMBER 16, 2021HEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S TRANS MUNY ARE ADVOTG FOR THE ELIMATN OF ‘DISCRIMATORY’ AND ‘FEAR-BASED’ BLOOD DONATN POLICIBY PHILIP MCLACHLANNOV 16, 2021JACK EDWARDS, A TRANS MAN, SAYS HE WANTS CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC TO CHANGE S POLICI AROUND TRANS DONORS. PHOTO: PHILIP MCLACHLAN / CAPAL DAILYCAPAL DAILY IS PART OF THE TST PROJECTLATTCOVIDTRANSPORTATNBSHOGGOOD NEWSJACK EDWARDS, A TRANS MAN, SAYS HE WANTS CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC TO CHANGE S POLICI AROUND TRANS DONORS. PHOTO: PHILIP MCLACHLAN / CAPAL DAILYCAPAL DAILY IS PART OF THE TST PROJECTGET THE NEWS AND EVENTS VICTORIA, YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG.I NSENT TO RECEIVG EMAILS OM THE CAPAL DAILY. I UNRSTAND I N UNSUBSCRIBE AT ANY TIME.THANK YOU! YOUR SUBMISSN HAS BEEN RECEIVED!OOPS! SOMETHG WENT WRONG WHILE SUBMTG THE FORM.LATT NEWSWILR INSTUTE WEL MARMOT PUPS AT NEW WHEATLAND COUNTY FACILYSATAN WANTS YOU DIRECTORS ON THE NSPIRACY THAT SHOOK VICTORIA—AND THE WORLDDES OF SERVICE NUU-CHAH-NULTH WATERS FOR WHAT ULD BE ‘THE LAST WOON EIGHTER ON THE AST’VICTORIA HARBOURCATS REACH LEAGUE FALS AFTER RERD-SETTG SEASONHEALTHNEWSBASED ON FACTS EHER OBSERVED AND VERIFIED FIRSTHAND BY THE REPORTER, OR REPORTED AND VERIFIED OM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURC.CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC MAY LOOSEN L ON GAY MEN. WHERE DO THAT LEAVE TRANSGENR DONORS?

We have more evince than ever before, stemmg om the MSM Rearch Program, ternatnal data and Canada-specific risk mollg, that dit sexual behavur-based screeng will not troduce risk to the blood supply, ” Lewis troduced a lifetime ban for gay men 1992. In the two ci, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men n donate plasma — the yellowish liquid which blood cells are spend — if they have not had a new sexual partner the last three months, and their current sexual partner has not had sex wh anyone else that time, CBS said a release Tuday. Acrdg to the most recent data om Health Canada, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men reprented 49.

“What we know om s of HIV rearch is what specific behavurs are most likely to pass HIV and we know that the majory of gay men will not acquire HIV, ” he add. “Var untri have dropped or changed their screeng creria for blood donatn recent years, cludg Italy, Portugal and June, the Uned Kgdom implemented a behavur-based policy that will allow gay, bisexual and MSM to be able to donate blood, plasma and platelets whout a ferral perd.

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CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC NOW ALLOWS SOME GAY, BISEXUAL MEN TO DONATE PLASMA CALGARY, LONDON, ONT.

BLOOD SERVICE REMENDS ENDG BAN ON GAY MEN DONATG BLOOD

CANADA LIFTS RTRICTNS ON GAY MEN DONATG BLOOD

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC TO REMEND END TO BAN ON GAY MEN DONATG BLOOD