Discrimatn agast gay men who n't make donatns is arbrary, archaic — and adly

Contents:

• DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY MEN WHO N'T MAKE DONATNS IS ARBRARY, ARCHAIC — AND ADLY
• WHAT ARE THE BLOOD DONATN L GLOBALLY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN?
• NEW US BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TO GIVE
• SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DONATE ANS
• BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• DPE BLOOD SUPPLI CRILLY LOW, SOME GAY MEN STILL CANNOT DONATE PLASMA
• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS
• FDA LOOSENS RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN, ENURAG BLOOD DONATNS AMID RONAVIS CRISIS
• CAN GAY MEN DONATE ANS CANADA?

DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY MEN WHO N'T MAKE DONATNS IS ARBRARY, ARCHAIC — AND ADLY

When she asked if Reert was a sexually active homosexual male, Snyr rpond “y” whout a send thought.

Then he went numb when he heard her say, “Well, unfortunately, that means …”Monogamo married gay men like Sean are at a lower risk for HIV than a sgle straight man wh a different partner every day. “But bee he was a gay man livg Ameri 2020 he was not allowed one of his fal wish. The woman on the phone wh Snyr was specifilly checkg about tissue donatn, which a sexually active gay man n’t give.

WHAT ARE THE BLOOD DONATN L GLOBALLY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN?

And the 112, 000 Amerins need of an donatns and the hundreds of thoands more need of tissue donatns n’t afford any unnecsary ’s no nyg that men who have sex wh men, cludg gay men, bisexual men and others, are at greater risk for HIV; 57 percent of people livg wh HIV got om male-to-male sexual ntact. Monogamo married gay men like Sean are at a lower risk for HIV than a sgle straight man wh a different partner every day — yet another example of how the polici are FDA and HHS fally showed some movement on this issue by amendg the guil on blood and an donatns recent years. But for many men, this abstence requirement still amounts to a lifetime any rctn the ludicro rtrictns is a step the right directn, the three months of abstence is nonsensil bee don’t actually crease the safety of recipients, even as ntu to discrimate agast gay and bisexual FDA admted April that the replacg of the lifetime ban wh a 12-month celibacy requirement 2015 ed “no crease risk to the blood supply.

NEW US BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TO GIVE

Of Iowa died by suici after homophobic bullyg 2013, his fal wish had been to donate his ans and tissue. “I uldn’t unrstand why my 16-year-old son’s ey uldn’t be donated jt bee he was gay, ” Betts’ mother said at the time.

Gay, lbian, or bisexual. As of now, the FDA, which overse blood and tissue donatn, has regulatns place which n lim what n be donated by gay men.

The limatns are NOT the same for an donatn--gay men the U. The eligibily qutn up most equently regardg sexually-active gay men or others who may have been told that they nnot donate blood products. Can gay men be an donors?

SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DONATE ANS

But that did get me wonrg about what else this turn of events might impact, which leads me to my qutn, n gay men be an donors? I mean, I assume that if my blood n’t be accepted by the blood bank then my ans probably n’t be accepted eher sce they would obvly have my gay blood nng through them.

(This May 11 story rrects date and time reference for France fal par)LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Countri around the world are reviewg rtrictns on blood donatns by gay and bisexual men imposed durg the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis, wh some removg blanket bans and others rcg wag perds after gay ’s Supreme Court led on Friday that a 12-month ferral perd for gay and bi men to give blood was unnstutnal, a policy LGBT+ mpaigners had long argued was discrimatory given morn blood-screeng now, Brazil’s ernment will have to treat gay and bisexual men the same as heterosexual men when donatg blood. It uld wre a new law that restat the ban, but s posn is not yet blood suppli have e unr prsure due to the ronavis panmic, lls have grown for ernments to replace abstence perds for men who have sex wh men to donate blood wh dividual risk-based month, the Uned Stat and Northern Ireland cut their abstence perds, while Atralia said plans to do are the l erng blood donatn by gay and bi men around the world:- Countri that impose lifelong bans on gay and bisexual men donatg blood clu Croatia, Iceland, Malaysia, Slovenia, Sgapore, Tridad and Tobago and Ukrae- At least 17 untri now have no rtrictns, cludg Argenta, Italy, Rsia, South Ai, Spa and, as of January this year, Hungary- In April 2020, the Uned Stat cut s celibacy perd om 12 months to three months amid a blood shortage- Last month, Northern Ireland also rced s ferral perd om one year to three months, brgg to le wh regulatns the rt of the Uned Kgdom- Some untri differentiate between blood products and blood general, but Bra men who have had sex wh another man the last three months and revered om Covid-19 nnot donate their plasma to a ronavis treatment trial- Most untri do not mentn whether takg Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a HIV-preventn dg, affects gay and bi men’s abily to donate blood.

Bra says s three-month abstence perd appli regardls of whether someone tak PrEP or not- When Atralia announced s tentn to cut the abstence perd om 12 months to three April, said people takg PrEP would still have a 12-month abstence perd- Atria lifted a blanket ban on men who have sex wh men givg blood, replacg wh a 12-month abstence perd for gay and bi men December 2019- In March, Denmark lifted s lifelong ban, implementg a prevly announced wag perd of four months- France has had a wag perd of 12 months sce 2016, when lifted a ban on gay and bisexual men givg blood that had been place sce 1983Sourc: Thomson Rters Foundatn rearch, RtersReportg by Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage and Elsa Ohlen; Addnal reportg by Fab Teixeira; Edg by Helen Popper and Hugo Greenhalgh. Gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships n give blood the US whout abstag om sex unr updated feral health guil that foc on donors’ behavr, not their sexual Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) guil falized on Thursday ease s-old rtrictns signed to protect the blood supply om agency announced plans for the change January and said this week the new approach n now be implemented by blood updated guil do away wh a requirement that men who have sex wh men absta om sex for three months prr to givg blood. CanadaA number of an donatn groups said Monday that they are unaware of new Health Canada regulatns that mean sexually active gay men, jectn dg ers and other groups nsired high risk will no longer be accepted as an donors.

BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

A number of an donatn groups said Monday that they are unaware of new Health Canada regulatns that mean sexually active gay men, jectn dg ers and other groups nsired high risk will no longer be accepted as an new l, which me to effect December, are siar to the regulatns for termg who n donate blood.

A spokwoman for Health Canada nfirmed the new regulatns an e-mail, but the partment didn't make anyone available to expla the should be on behavur: gay activistLevy said an donors shouldn't be held to the same high standards as blood donors bee the stak for the an recipient are higher. About 4, 000 Canadians are wag for an an the gay muny plaed that the new policy is wrong-head and that Health Canada should foc on risky sexual behavurs, not sexual orientatn.

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

"I thk 's more of an issue of anal sex, anal terurse, than is to do wh whether someone is gay or straight, " said Dean Robson, a gay activist. 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. 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 .

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.

GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS

MCCLURG: He says science should drive health policy, not homophobia. 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. ScienceSexually active gay men, jectn dg ers and other groups nsired high risk n donate ans, but only if thorized by recipients, Health Canada Canada has clarified s latt policy on an donatns om sexually active gay men, jectn dg ers and other groups nsirs high risk, sayg that do not ban the e of ans om the groups. "Unr the formalized policy, for example:A gay man who had practised abstence for five years prr to an donatn would be nsired an acceptable donor.

The Food and Dg Admistratn on Thursday said would loosen some of the rtrictns that have blocked gay and bisexual men om donatg agency is changg the remend ferral perd for men who have had sex wh another man om 12 months to three months. Rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men, and other groups nsired to be high risk for HIV or AIDS transmissn, date back to the 1980's. ET every weekday for special verage of the novel ronavis wh the full ABC News team, cludg the latt news, ntext and FDA said the chang would be implemented immediately and and are expected to rema place after the COVID-19 panmic revised guidance also clus people wh recent tattoos and piercgs and women who have had sex wh a gay or bisexual man; the remend ferral perd is now three months vers 12 Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Blogics Evaluatn and Rearch, said a statement: "Based on recently pleted studi and epimlogic data, we've nclud that the current polici regardg the eligibily of certa donors n be modified whout promisg the safety of the blood supply.

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

Contug to enforce the facto prohibn on blood donatn by sexually active gay and bisexual men do not reflect the bt science available. "In the last week Democratic senators and gay rights advocy groups have lled on the feral ernment to loosen the rtrictns, cg the recent blood shortag ed by the COVID-19 outbreak. "This is a victory for all of who raised our llective voic agast the discrimatory ban on gay and bisexual men donatg blood.

CAN GAY MEN DONATE ANS CANADA?

We will keep fightg until the ferral perd is lifted and gay and bi men, and all LGBTQ people, are treated equal to others.

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

In fact, the relevant regulatns suggt that gay men’s ans aren’t acceptable Canada eher.

Wa, so the regulatns say ‘no gay ans’? But isn’t that effectively a gay ban? I mean, how many gay men do you know who haven’t had any kd of sex wh another man the last five years?

Spokpeople for both the Trillium Gift of Life Network and Health Canada sist that the rtrictns do not nstute a ban on gay ans. Dpe the regulatns, ans donated by healthy gay men are not rejected practice, acrdg to Health Canada. Aren’t anal examatns on live men — which are also performed by police some untri that crimalize homosexualy — to terme if they’ve participated anal sex largely discreded and nsired a form of “cel, gradg, and human treatment” by Human Rights Watch?