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...
The Food and Drug Administration is finally set to ease federal guidelines which banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood,The Washington PostreportedThursday, citing officials with knowledge of the plan. New proposed rules would allow same-sex couples in monogamous relationships to donate their...
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 form...
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 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced proposed changes in its recommendations governing blood donor eligibility to reduce the risk of
cited the COVID-19 outbreak and recent blood shortages as reasons to call for action now. On March 17, the American Red Cross announced a"severe blood shortage,"explaining that social distancing guidelines and coronavirus fears led many blood drives to be canceled, resulting in fewer blood...
Therein lies the rub: these guidelines have remained in place for years, long after processes exist to test blood products to determine if they are safe, no matter who donates. According to the CDC, all donated blood products are tested for HIV and other pathogens, such as hepatitis C virus...
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...
a 32-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified.The FDA on Tuesday released proposed guidelines for screening blood donors at increased risk of carrying HIV. Under the proposal, the current blanket ban on donations from gay men would be replaced with...
The US Food and Drug Administration is considering a requirement for blood banks to use a new test that can detect the parasites that cause malaria in certain donors’ blood, and it’s seeking the opinion of its independent advisers on the best way to me