| FDA recommends lifting lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men |
| The
FDA will propose lifting its ban on blood donation for men who have had
sex with other men, and will replace it with a one-year deferral period
after gay sexual conduct, the agency announced on Tuesday. Since 1983, the FDA has banned any man who has had sex with another man, from 1977 to the present, from donating blood. The policy was instituted in the early days of the AIDS crisis, when little was known about HIV but fears were rising of a virus transmitted among gay and bisexual men. |
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
FDA recommends lifting lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men
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