Followinga requestby 15 senators for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to loosen its blood donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men, theFDA announcedat the beginning of April that it would relax its restrictions. The restrictions resulted in the reduction of the amount of time...
FDA told to up blood donation restrictions - Brief Article
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. MORE: How ...
All U.S. blood donations are screened forHIV, the virus that causesAIDS. But there is a roughly 10-day window between initial infection and when the virus can be detected in the bloodstream. The American Red Cross estimates the risk of getting an HIV-positive blood donation is 1 in 1.5 ...
The FDA has announced a relaxing of its restrictions on gay men being allowed to donate blood, in light of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Instead of 1 year, if a male has had sex with another male, he need only wait 3 months to donate blood....
The nation's three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood.
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...
Democratic senators and gay rights advocates are calling on the federal government to loosen restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
“Heterosexuals are given no such restrictions, even if their sexual behavior places them at high risk for HIV,” said Louie in a statement on the 12-month deferral. “In practice, the new policy is still a continuation of the lifetime ban and ignores the modern science of HIV-testing te...
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 with...