Israel remov 'discrimatory' curbs on gay men over blood donatn 'historic step' | Middle East

Contents:

• ISRAEL WILL NOW LET GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD
• ISRAEL EAS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS BY GAY MEN
• ISRAEL LOOSENG RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY MEN
• GAY MEN N NOW EELY DONATE BLOOD ISRAEL
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ISRAEL CAN NOW DONATE BLOOD WHOUT DELAY, BUT NOT THE U.S.
• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• ISRAEL LIFTS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
• ISRAEL REMOV 'DISCRIMATORY' CURBS ON GAY MEN OVER BLOOD DONATN IN 'HISTORIC STEP'
• HEALTH MISTER ANNOUNC REMOVAL OF ALL BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS FOR GAY MEN
• ISRAEL EAS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS BY GAY MEN
• ISRAEL SCRAPS ALL CURBS ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY MEN
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UNR FALIZED FDA L
• ISRAEL LIFTS RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS

ISRAEL WILL NOW LET GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD

(JTA) — Israel has end a rtrictn on blood donatn that effectively prohibed gay men om donatg blood. It was spearhead by Israeli Health Mister Nzan Horowz, who is the first gay man the posn.

“Discrimatn agast gay men blood donatn is over. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has lifted rtrictns on blood donatns by gay men, sayg the longstandg limatn was discrimatory and nigratg, Israel’s health mister said Thursday.

ISRAEL EAS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS BY GAY MEN

Eased rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men, followg a siar cisn by the U. Nzan Horowz, Israel’s health mister, who himself is openly gay, wrote a Facebook post that the Health Mistry had “removed the nigratg and irrelevant qutns” qutnnair for blood donors, and that everyone would be treated equally regardls of sexual orientatn. “Discrimatn agast gays donatg blood is over.

Israel loosened s rtrictns for blood donatns om gay and bisexual men on Thursday, tablishg new screeng guil that e genr-ntral wordg. Israel’s Health Mister Nzan Horowz, who is openly gay, hailed the move  a Facebook post on Thursday, wrg that the cisn “removed the nigratg and irrelevant qutns” for prospective donors, and would now allow everyone to be treated the same regardls of their sexual orientatn.

ISRAEL LOOSENG RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY MEN

Last year, when the Food and Dg Admistratn (FDA) announced that was looseng s rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men by creasg the remend ferral perd om 12 months to 3 months. A number of Democratic lawmakers and gay rights advot phed the FDA to loosen the rtrictns, cg the blood shortag. The ferral remendatn policy dat back to the HIV-AIDS crisis the 1980s, which impacted gay and bisexual men more than others.

The Uned Kgdom also relaxed some rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men earlier this year, elimatg the three-month ferral wdow as long as there is no known exposure to sexually transmted fectns. Gay and bisexual men will now be held to the same standard as all other people seekg to give blood.

The policy puts Israel the growg number of natns that are changg polici around blood or tissue donatn regulatns to take away past rtrictns placed on gay and bisexual men. Related: An out polician reunts how he saved his gay neighbor’s life by donatg his kidney. Discrimatn agast gays donatg blood is over.

GAY MEN N NOW EELY DONATE BLOOD ISRAEL

In 2018, Israel removed rtrictns allowg any gay and bisexual men to donate blood, regardls on when they last had sexual relatnships wh men.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ISRAEL CAN NOW DONATE BLOOD WHOUT DELAY, BUT NOT THE U.S.

Dpe their own guidance, several blood banks said the FDA did not change their ternal procsg for acceptg blood donatns om MSM for months, and several gay and bisexual men have still been turned away amidst the panmic, cludg out policians and elected officials. Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay — we’re over a year to COVID-19 Panmic wh over a year of blood shortag NYC — yet I still n’t donate bee I am gay. The FDA mt change their homophobic polici.

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

“If the FDA do not stop discrimatg agast gay men, s policy uld advertently enurage HIV transmissn and unrme our abily to fight COVID-19.

Gay and bisexual men have ntued to be affected by the polici wily nsired discrimatory and misguid. This #WorldBloodDonorDay, I am ntug my fight to end the FDA’s outdated and discrimatory polici that prevent gay and bisexual men who n safely donate blood om dog so. Remr: the FDA’s discrimatory policy on blood donatns om gay men is based on a 1980s unrstandg of HIV and AIDS.

ISRAEL LIFTS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a policy change, gay men will be allowed to eely donate blood Israel. Last year, Israel’s Health Mistry announced that gay men uld donate blood provid that a year had passed sce their last sexual enunter wh a man.

That was challenged by gay rights groups Israel. The Uned Stat requir gay male blood donors to have been celibate for 12 months before donatg. Israelis take part the untry's first Gay Pri para on June 22, 2017.

Israel announced Monday that would be liftg a ban on gay and bisexual male blood donors, a change that has not been ma the Uned 's natnal emergency service Magen David Adom vised a "double ttg" system that allows blood banks to screen donatns twice, allowg gay and bisexual men to make immediate donatns, acrdg to the The Tim of Israel. Prr to the Wednday announcement, Israel shared the same policy seen the Uned Stat, which gay and bisexual men n only donate blood after a 12-month perd of no sexual ntact wh another 's Mistry of Health is allowg the new system on a two-year trial basis. We rema ncerned, however, that for too many low risk gay and bisexual men the new l are, effect, a ntued ban, " said Development Manager Stt Cuthbertson of Sttish LGBTQ advocy group Equaly Network December, acrdg to NBC U.

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

Food and Dg Admistratn troduced the 12-month lay for men who have had sex wh other men (MSM) 2015, revisg a 1983 policy that had placed a lifetime ban on gay donors as a reactnary measure to the HIV/AIDS the June 2016 mass shootg at the LGBT Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, the LGBT muny lled for a revisn of the 12-month wag perd. Gay and bisexual men were barred after the cint om makg donatns to loved on need of blood.

"The tragedy at Pulse nightclub Orlando highlighted the discrimatn gay and bisexual men face when attemptg to donate blood to those need, " said Reprentative Mike Quigley (D-IL) after the massacre, addg that he was enuraged by the FDA announcement July, year, medil rearchers om Greece and the U. Emed bans on gay and bisexual blood donors "outdated, " sayg that blood banks now have the advanced technology to tt blood wh 100 percent sensivy and specificy.

"Current HIV ttg technologi rce the risk of HIV-ntamated blood fectn to 1 per 8-to-12 ln donatns, " rearchers said a paper published June by the Natnal Center for Btechnology FDA has not released any new remendatns sce s statement after the Orlando shootg, and Tmp admistratn has not addrsed the wag perd for gay blood donors the Uned Stat. 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.

ISRAEL REMOV 'DISCRIMATORY' CURBS ON GAY MEN OVER BLOOD DONATN IN 'HISTORIC STEP'

A person is tted durg the first gay men's blood drive, held at the Memorial Blood Center St. 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. 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. Israel has lifted rtrictns on blood donatns by men who have sex wh men, wh the untry’s health mister sayg the long-standg ban was discrimatory and nigratg, pecially to gay men.

HEALTH MISTER ANNOUNC REMOVAL OF ALL BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS FOR GAY MEN

Discrimatn agast gay people blood donatns is over, ” Horowz, who was the send openly gay Knset member history, wrote. “When I entered the Mistry of Health, I assumed to immediately stop the discrimatn agast homosexuals this matter, and so we did, ” Horowz ntued.

ISRAEL EAS RTRICTNS ON BLOOD DONATNS BY GAY MEN

Gay and bisexual men were origally barred om donatg blood startg durg the early years of the AIDS epimic, due to the high cince of fectns men who had sex wh men. For example, earlier this year, the Uned Kgdom eased rtrictns on gay and bisexual blood donors, stead allowg any person of any genr to donate blood provid they have been a monogamo relatnship for more than three months. Related: FDA-fund study uld end blood donor rtrictns on gay and bisexual men.

In 2018, Israel’s Health Mistry lnched a two-year pilot program which blood donatns om gay or bisexual men would be tted, ozen for four months, and then tted a send time before beg approved for donatns. “Endg discrimatn blood donatns is a historic step for the gay muny and for Israeli society on the way to equaly, ” the anizatn said a statement.

The anizatn also thanked Horowz for liftg the ban, sayg “elimat outdated stereotyp toward the gay muny. READ NEXTKev Spacey Not Guilty of Sexual MisnductMalaysia Cancels Mic Ftival Followg Matt Healy’s Gay Kissg StuntGay Film ‘Passag’ Gets Slapped Wh An NC-17 RatgAttempt to Remove San Diego Library’s LGBTQ Books Backfir. 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.

ISRAEL SCRAPS ALL CURBS ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY MEN

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. “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.

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

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.

“Social and stctural factors that e gay men to feel othered e them to engage risky sexual behavr, ” Halkis says.

ISRAEL LIFTS RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

So a ban like this isn’t jt harmful to the Amerin public; “’s credibly harmful to the gay muny, both emotnally and physilly.

FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

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. Israel on Wednday scrapped the discrimatory le that banned blood donatns by gay men and termed the -old practice as discrimatory and nigratg. Rtrictn on homosexual men om donatg blood will be lifted on October 1, Israel's Health Mister Nzan Horowz announced.

He tweeted, “The discrimatn agast gay men donatg blood is over".

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

' Horowz, who is openly gay said that the ernment had removed the irrelevant qutns regardg genr the forms dited for the blood donatns.

The road to Thursday’s cisn was a long and tough one, but now, movg forward, all rtrictns on homosexual blood donors will be lifted, he said. Hailg the landmark cisn, the Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel issued a statement sayg, “Endg discrimatn blood donatns is a historic step for the gay muny and for Israeli society on the way to equaly.