FDA relax blood donatn guil for gay and bisexual men : NPR

Contents:

• BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• NEW BLOOD DONATN RUL TO LOOSEN RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
• TRANS AND GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN SEX WORKERS N’T DONATE BLOOD: WHAT THE CENTRE SAID SC
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WOULD BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AS FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
• FDA LOOSENS RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, ENURAG BLOOD DONATNS AMID RONAVIS CRISIS

BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

However, women who have recently had sex wh a gay or bisexual man may be ferred. Gay and bisexual men are eligible to donate three months after their last sexual enunter wh another man. Can gay or bisexual men donate blood?

That’s why AABB has led efforts to make blood donatn clive of non-bary donors and champned the adoptn of equable, science-based dividual donor asssment (IDA) procs to terme blood donor eligibily that wele LGBTQ+ blood donors, strengthen the blood supply and save Approv Historic Expansn of Donor EligibilyOn May 11, 2023, the Food and Dg Admistratn issued a fal guidance elimatg time-based blood donor ferral perds for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) and women who have sex wh MSM. I’m a gay or bisexual man who hasn’t had sex wh another man more than three months.

FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

I have heard that some other untri allow gay or bisexual men to donate blood based on different creria than the Uned Stat. 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.

NEW BLOOD DONATN RUL TO LOOSEN RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Peter Ch-Hong, an fect disease specialist at the Universy of California, San 2015, the FDA relaxed an outright ban on donatns om gay and bisexual men, but the 2015 guidance asked men to absta om sex for at least one year before Thursday's falized guidance, every prospective donor will be asked about their sexual history wh the past three months -- regardls of their sexual orientatn. ""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, " Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and CEO of GLAAD, said a statement, however, took issue wh one part of the updated remendatn, which urg ferral for anyone takg HIV meditns -- cludg people who are HIV negative who are takg meditns lled PrEP to prevent ferral perd uld ntue to erect barriers to LGBTQ blood donors, she said.

Said the new guil would be more clive and were based on a review of data om other Fremson/The New York TimThe Food and Dg Admistratn plans to revise a longstandg policy that exclud most gay and bisexual men om blood donatn, stead adoptg an approach that will screen donors pendg on their recent sexual activy, agency officials said on move follows years of cricism om L. Feral officials have long jtified the excln of gay and bisexual men as a way to keep H.

In 2015, the agency allowed gay and bisexual men to donate if they had not had sexual ntact wh other men for the prev perd was rced to three months after severe blood shortag durg the Covid-19 F.

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

Said the agency’s proposal was an important step forward that would enable him — a gay married man — and many others to perform an important public service.

TRANS AND GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN SEX WORKERS N’T DONATE BLOOD: WHAT THE CENTRE SAID SC

Said the new approach would be genr-clive — the screeng would also apply to women who have sex wh gay and bisexual men — and would foc on dividual risk, not blanket prohibns on groups. A., shapg the proposal, reviewed data om a recent study of about 1, 600 gay and bisexual men eight metropolan areas. ”But, as a gay man, he said that not havg the abily to donate blood had ma him feel “shunned by the ernment, ” and he was disappoted that the change took so long.

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

More about Ey AnthA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: New Blood Donatn Rul to Loosen Rtrictns on Gay and Bisexual Men. For the first time four s, gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood Utah.

Durg a prs nference Wednday afternoon, ARUP Blood Servic ma the announcement, makg the first donor center the state to accept donatns om the gay muny.

“The are excg chang to the guil that have historilly impacted gay and bisexual men for four s.”. 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.

MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WOULD BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD AS FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS

“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. 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.

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

“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.

Let them know you don’t support discrimatory practic that ban gay and bisexual men om dog their civic duty. The Centre recently told the Supreme Court, through an affidav filed by the Unn Mistry of Health & Fay Welfare, that the excln of transgenrs, gay people, and female sex workers as blood donors by cludg them the “at risk” tegory for HIV, Hepatis B, or C fectns is based on due nsiratn of scientific Central ernment’s rponse me after Thangjam Sgh, a member of the transgenr muny, moved the Supreme Court seekg to strike down the prohibn on gay and transgenr people om donatg blood unr cls 12 and 51 of the ‘Guil for Blood Donor Selectn & Blood Donor Referral, 2017’ issued by the Natnal Blood Transfn Council (NBTC) and the Natnal Aids Control Organisatn on October 11, erng body of NBTC, s 26th meetg on June 1, 2017, approved the Guil to brg a Blood Transfn Service which offers a “safe, sufficient and timely supply of blood and blood ponents to those need.

Clse 12 of the Guil is tled ‘Risk Behavr” falls unr the “Blood Donor Selectn Creria’, and mandat that the donor be ee om any termable disease transmissible by blood transfn and “not be a person nsired at risk for HIV, Hepatis B or C fectns”, such as transgenr and gay people, female sex workers, jectg dg ers, persons wh multiple sexual partners or any other high risk, termed by the medil officer cidg their fns for blood donatn.

FDA LOOSENS RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, ENURAG BLOOD DONATNS AMID RONAVIS CRISIS

Further, Clse 15 permanently fers those “at risk for HIV fectn”, cludg gay and transgenr people, om donatg blood. Unn of India’ was filed 2021 by a Manipur-based transgenr rights activist, challengg the nstutnal validy of the 2017 Guil that bar transgenr and gay persons om donatg blood.

In s affidav, the ernment said that the excln of transgenr and gays om blood donatn is premised on scientific evince, addg, “There is substantial evince to show that transgenr persons, men havg sex wh men and female sex workers are at risk for HIV, Hepatis B or C fectns.