Gay Men’s Blood Donor Ban to Be Eased as FDA Backs Change
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Gay men may soon be allowed to give blood after U.S. health officials publicly endorsed lifting a three-decade ban on donations from men who have sex with men, as long as they’ve been celibate a year.
The Food and Drug Administration next year will propose what’s known as a one-year deferral policy, Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement today.