Dpe Blood Suppli Crilly Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma : NPR

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• DPE BLOOD SUPPLI CRILLY LOW, SOME GAY MEN STILL CANNOT DONATE PLASMA
• CAN GAY MEN DONATE PLASMA?
• FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY MEN STILL UNABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AND PLASMA SPE NEW FDA GUIL. HERE'S WHY.
• ANDY COHEN SAYS HE ULDN'T DONATE PLASMA BEE HE IS GAY
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
• BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE

DPE BLOOD SUPPLI CRILLY LOW, SOME GAY MEN STILL CANNOT DONATE PLASMA

Dpe Blood Suppli Crilly Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma Men who've had COVID-19 and have sex wh other men mt wa three months before donatg potentially life-savg plasma.

Dpe Blood Suppli Crilly Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma. Many argue that a feral policy preventg many gay men om donatg blood is driven by stigma rather than science. And yet simply bee I am gay, I n't do anythg wh .

CAN GAY MEN DONATE PLASMA?

But that's not possible for gay men. The lifetime ban was shortened to a year of celibacy 2015 and then rced to three months last April, which is still a problem acrdg to California State Senator Stt WIENER: The FDA's blood donatn ban is 100% driven by fear, ignorance and outdated stereotyp about gay and bisexual men. Anybody who is not monogamo, gay or straight, would have to wa.

FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

MCCLURG: He says science should drive health policy, not homophobia.

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 MEN STILL UNABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AND PLASMA SPE NEW FDA GUIL. HERE'S WHY.

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

Thanks to efforts by LGBTQ+ advot, the FDA revised s l 2020, allowg gay men to donate blood and plasma. However, gay men still face stricter eligibily requirements when to plasma donatn.

ANDY COHEN SAYS HE ULDN'T DONATE PLASMA BEE HE IS GAY

Can Gay Men Donate Plasma? Thanks to new FDA regulatns released 2020, gay men n donate plasma.

Gay men mt absta om sex wh another man for three months prr to donatg plasma. Even if a gay man is a long-term, monogamo relatnship wh another man, he still mt absta om sex wh that man for three months prr to donatn.

MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L

Navigatg the new regulatns on plasma donatn for gay men n be plited.

Addnal Consiratns for Gay Men Donatg Plasma.

Even though gay men are allowed to donate plasma, there are addnal nsiratns.

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

Gay men mt absta om sex wh other men for three months before donatn. For gay men who have sex wh men, that means they'll need to absta nsistently to donate monthly. 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.

For example, the HIV epimic has spread far beyond gay and bisexual men, wh women acuntg for roughly 1 5 new HIV diagnos the Uned Stat, acrdg to the most recent CDC data available.