FDA likely to end blanket ban on sexually active gay men donatg blood - CBS News

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• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• DOCTORS SAY 'S TIME TO END BAN ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN MONOGAMO RELATNSHIPS N DONATE BLOOD UNR NEW FDA POLICY
• MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN COULD SOON DONATE BLOOD
• NEW BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY MEN TO GIVE US
• FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD
• FDA’S BLOOD BAN REVERSAL FOR GAY MEN, EXPLAED
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD IN ENGLAND, STLAND AND WAL
• LAWMAKERS LL ON FDA TO END RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS
• FDA LIKELY TO END BLANKET BAN ON SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN DONATG BLOOD

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

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.

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DOCTORS SAY 'S TIME TO END BAN ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

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. 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.”. Medil profsnals Massachetts are llg on the FDA to rcd a longstandg policy that bars most gay men om donatg blood. "It's te that there's a higher prevalence of HIV among gay and bisexual men, but the vast majory of gay and bisexual men don't have HIV, " said Sean Cahill, director of health policy rearch for the Fenway Instute.

GAY, BISEXUAL MEN MONOGAMO RELATNSHIPS N DONATE BLOOD UNR NEW FDA POLICY

"And so this kd of puts out this ia that HIV is a gay disease, and I really do thk ntribut to stigma and discrimatn agast gay men. It's easier for someone to purchase a gun than for a gay man to donate blood, and that don't make any sense.

MORE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN COULD SOON DONATE BLOOD

Cahill said, as a gay man, the policy prevents him om givg blood. In 2015, the policy was changed to allow gay and bisexual men to give blood after a year of no sex wh men.

"Cahill -thored a paper the New England Journal of Medice last year lookg at the rults of a cisn by the Uned Kgdom to drop a siar ban, and llg for the Uned Stat to do the add the ban n put gay and bisexual men a difficult posn when blood driv are held, forcg them to disclose their sexualy, or seem like they're choosg not to participate an altistic Wu remembers the first time he learned that he was not able to give blood bee of his sexualy, at a blood drive llege.

NEW BLOOD DONATN L ALLOW MORE GAY MEN TO GIVE US

"As a gay man, there is somethg that strik a eply paful nerve by beg told that your blood is tated, that the blood that urs through you is que lerally worthy only of beg disrd, " he asked about the agency's current policy, an FDA spokperson poted to a study is fundg lled ADVANCE to terme if a change the policy uld be ma while matag the safety of the blood supply. Edor's note: This story was updated wh rmatn om the FDA to clarify guidance to terme blood-donor regulators on Thursday falized a long-awaed plan that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood, potentially expandg the number of eligible donors the U. "This new policy ends a s-old ban rooted discrimatn and bias, " Human Rights Campaign print Kelley Robson said a Thursday prs release appldg the the new guil, gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships will not need to absta om sex prr to givg blood.

Bee I'm gay, I'm are FDA's new blood donatns requirements? "This updated policy is based on the bt available scientific evince and is le wh polici place untri like the Uned Kgdom and Canada, " the FDA said a Thursday prs policy also elimat screeng qutns specific to women who have sex wh bisexual men or gay men, the agency rights groups long opposed rtrictns on gay, bisexual menAlmost a ago, the FDA had rtrictns place requirg gay and bisexual men to absta om sex for one year before they uld the time, the Human Rights Campaign said the policy ntued "to stigmatize gay and bisexual men. "We are mted to workg towards an eventual oute that both mimiz risk to the blood supply and treats gay and bisexual men wh the rpect they serve, " HRC ernment affairs director David Stacy FDA first banned men who have sex wh men om donatg blood 1983 as the HIV/AIDS crisis unfold.

FDA MOV TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY MEN GIVG BLOOD

“Current and former blood donatn polici ma unfound assumptns about gay and bisexual men and really entangled dividuals’ inty wh their likelihood of havg HIV, ” Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, an advocy group, tells Matthew Perone of the Associated Prs (AP). Gay Rights,. WASHINGTON (AP) — Gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships n give blood the U.

FDA’S BLOOD BAN REVERSAL FOR GAY MEN, EXPLAED

Gay rights groups have long opposed blanket rtrictns on who n give blood, sayg they discrimate. “As LGBTQ lears and medil experts have been sayg for years: bans and rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men are rooted stigma, not science, ” Ellis said.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE NOW ALLOWED TO DONATE BLOOD IN ENGLAND, STLAND AND WAL

”The Red Cross add that has been volved the FDA-fund ADVANCE study to terme whether a qutnnaire that asssed dividual risks gay and bisexual donors uld replace a blanket time-based rmatnThe U. Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

The FDA’s latt move reprents a seismic shift for gay and bisexual men as well as for the crilly low U. The Uned Stat Food and Dg Admistratn announced on May 11, 2023, that has officially dropped rtrictns that prohib gay and bisexual men om donatg blood unr many circumstanc on May 11, 2023. The ban was ially put place  the early days of the AIDS epimic, but for years medil profsnals and gay-rights advot have argued that the ban is no longer medilly jtifiable and that unnecsarily discrimat agast men who have sex wh men.

Rearchers and gay-rights advot have long argued that time-based ferrals lack nuance and fail to realistilly nsir the differenc risk associated wh the type of sex, type of relatnship, number of partners and equency of sexual enunters. Gay and bisexual men England, Stland, and Wal n now donate blood, plasma and platelets unr certa circumstanc whout havg to wa three months, the Natnal Health Service announced this week.

LAWMAKERS LL ON FDA TO END RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

Gay and bisexual men England, Stland, and Wal n now donate blood, plasma and platelets unr certa circumstanc, the Natnal Health Service announced this week a momento shift policy for most of the U.

Begng Monday, gay men sexually active, monogamo relatnships for at least three months n donate for the first time. S, the abily for gay and bisexual men to donate blood is still rtricted.

A ban on gay and bisexual blood donors has been effect sce the early 1980s when fears about HIV/AIDS were wispread. In April 2020, more than 500 medil profsnals signed an open letter released by GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, llg on the FDA to elimate the ban. “If you are a gay or bi man one of the participatg ci, please nsir signg up bee we have to be the change we want to see, ” he add.

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

“The are excg chang to the guil that have historilly impacted gay and bisexual men for four s. Rearch backed by the Food and Dg Admistratn "will likely support" endg a blanket ban on blood donatns om sexually active gay men, the agency said Wednday. "Several untri have already shifted away om broad wag perds for gay men to narrower screeng approach, cludg Canada earlier this year.

FDA LIKELY TO END BLANKET BAN ON SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN DONATG BLOOD