The FDA recently updated its blood donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men to enable more people to donate blood during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a request by 15 senators for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to loosen its blood donation restrictions for gay and bis...
FDA releases plan to ease restrictions on gay blood donationBy MATTHEW PERRONEAssociated Press
The FDA is easing its restrictions on gay and bisexual men who want to make a blood donation. But there's a catch -- the lifetime ban is being replaced with a new policy that requires gay and bisexual men to abstain from sex for a year before being
If finalized, the shift would be the latest FDA move to broaden donor eligibility, with the potential to boost the U.S. blood supply. Gay rights groups have long opposed blanket restrictions on who can give blood, saying they discriminate against the LGBTQ community. Medical societies including ...
The FDA could reverse restrictive rules that have prevented many gay and bisexual men from donating blood. Since 2015, the agency has allowed members of
That finally changed in May 2023, when the FDAdropped all restrictionsspecific to gay and bisexual men donating blood, moving to a new blood donation risk assessment tool that is the same for every donor regardless of how they identify, which rolled out in August 2023. ...
"Blood is life-saving and essential and almost all of us will need blood products at one time or another as we go through life," Califf said at a news conference Friday. Gay rights groups have long opposed blanket restrictions on who can give blood, saying they discriminate against the LG...
The announcement follows similar action from other countries which have eased restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men. In Canada, earlier this year, officials submitted to eliminate a three-month blanket donor deferral period for all sexually active men who have sex wit...
Calls for FDA to drop rule on blood donations by gay people amid blood shortage As the State of California, and the nation, continue to face a dire blood shortage, there are new calls on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end restrictions on blood donations by gay men. Am...
And giving blood is one way for you to help during this public health emergency. If you're healthy and want to donate blood, contact a local donation center to make an appointment, the agency advised. There's another way you might be able to help—by donating convalescent plasma, the FD...