Because, at the time, HIV was primarily but not exclusively confined to gay and bisexual men, a decision was made in the 1980s under the Reagan Bush administration to ban the donation of blood by gay and bisexual men as a means of controlling the disease, as it was ...
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 ...
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...
for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. 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 million for U.S. patients. About ...
“Current and former blood donation policies made unfounded assumptions about gay and bisexual men and really entangled individuals’ identity with their likelihood of having HIV,” said Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group. ...
Thirteen years after the lifetime ban was instituted, 1998 data from the Blood Donation Rules Opinion Study (BloodDROPS) showed that “the prevalence of HIV infection in male blood donors who reported that they were MSM was determined to be 0.25%, which is much lower than the estimated 11%...
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Haja Sittana El Mubarak (Office of in Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety, Silver Spring, MD) for her unstinting help, extensive feedback, and generous donation of time in the preparation of the manuscript.References 1 P.H. Edelstein Evaluation of the Gen-Probe DNA probe for the ...
The process for donating plasma is similar to donating blood and takes about an hour. Plasma donors are hooked up to a small device that removes plasma while simultaneously returning red blood cells to their bodies. Unlike regular blood donation in which donors have to wait for ...
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