Reports the extension of the blood donation ban among travelers in Europe, as ordered by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2001. Objectives of the extension; Reaction of the America's Blood Centers to the move of FDA; Provisions of the guidelines for the ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced draft guidelines that would do away with the current three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with men. Instead, potential donors would be screened with a questionnaire that evaluates their individual risks for HIV bas...
has released updated guidance for blood donation which relaxes the rules for donations from men who have sex with men (msm). this follows decades in which msm have been rejected or discouraged from donation blood due to a fear of hiv transmission. the new guidance has removed the time-based ...
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...
The FDA is expected to release more information about potential updates to its blood donation guidelines in the next few weeks.
In the height of the AIDS epidemic, the United States (US) Public Health Service issued exclusionary recommendations for blood donation, stating that “sexually active homosexual and bisexual men with multiple partners” were not advised to donate blood. Later, in 1986, a for...
Craig Burdett and Jose Dominguez were not allowed to donate blood under the FDA’s previous guidelines. Pictured: Burdett (left) and Dominguez in New York City, date unknown.Courtesy of Craig Burdett and Jose Dominguez "This is something that we had talked about along during our rel...
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
For decades, many gay and bisexual men have been banned from donating blood. While the FDA has loosened restrictions, critics say the current rules still exclude far too many people. Len Ramirez reports. (6/21/23)Jun 22, 2023 embed code copied ...
"It's an antiquated law," said DeCarlo. "There are plenty of gay men who get tested regularly for HIV, the blood banks test the blood strict now and the law needs to be overturned." "I think that some of these guidelines may be a little bit outdated," said Dr. Robert Hasty from...