FDA agrees to revisit blood donations from gay men
‘Encouraging’ is how one LGBT publication describes the agency’s willingness to lift a 31-year-old ban on gay male donors.
A lot has happened in the seven months since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to its blood donor deferral recommendations.
The most significant event took place in Orlando last month, when a gunman murdered 49 people and wounded dozens of others in a gay nightclub. In the aftermath, the LGBT community—and many others—were outraged that gay and bisexual men were turned away from hospitals and other facilities when plasma and blood donations were desperately needed.
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