The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly drawing up plans to allow gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to donate blood without abstaining from sex for 90 days, parting from a long-standing policy that barred men who are currently having sex with men from donating.
The new policy is expected to require potential donors to complete a new questionnaire that would look into their sexual activity, including if they have had new sexual partners in the past three months, people familiar with the plans told the Wall Street Journal.The FDA has slowly been easing blood donation restrictions on gay and bisexual men in the past decade.
In addition to the screening process, donated blood undergoes a series of tests to determine the presence of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases. "The agency believes the initial data from the study, taken in the context of other data available from blood surveillance in the U.S. and in other countries, will likely support a policy transition to individual risk-based donor screening questions for reducing the risk of HIV transmission," the FDA said in a statement to the Washington Examiner."We anticipate issuing updated draft guidance in the coming months.
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