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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/health/fda-lifting-ban-on-gay-blood-donors.html?_r=0
GMHC Joins Conversation on FDA's Discriminatory Blood Donor Policy
>>While other countries have begun to use risk-based assessments to screen blood donations, the U.S. FDA recently proposed an updated policy that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, but only if they are celibate for a full year, which would still amount to a de facto lifetime ban for nearly all men who have sex with men, even gay married couples who are HIV-negative. <<
GMHC Joins Conversation on FDA's Discriminatory Blood Donor Policy
>>While other countries have begun to use risk-based assessments to screen blood donations, the U.S. FDA recently proposed an updated policy that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, but only if they are celibate for a full year, which would still amount to a de facto lifetime ban for nearly all men who have sex with men, even gay married couples who are HIV-negative. <<
