According to a newspaper report, the Food and Drug Administration may be ready to further ease restrictions on gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood. AielloTV has the story.
may be ready to further ease restrictions on gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood.
David is an advocate for changing blood donation guidelines, which for many years prohibited men who have sex with men from donating blood at all, due to concerns about"If somebody wants to do that selfless act of donating blood in order to help somebody else, their blood should be respected, their blood should be treated with science and not stigma," David said.
The newspaper says the FDA is likely to follow the lead of other countries that screen blood donors with an individualized risk assessment, asking about recent sex partners and practices.
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