Daily News | All I want for the New Year is a chance to give blood: How outdated rules restrict gay men from donating | Expert Opinion
In the wake of landmark bipartisan approval of legislation to legalize same-sex marriage across the country, it is time to repair the policy that uniquely discriminates against a large group of men who want to give blood.
Only then did we discover that we needed to attest to being celibate for three months before being allowed to donate blood. We were shocked. I mean, our children may call us “old-school,” but they would never mistake us for monks. This policy had been in place since 2020, before which the FDA-sanctioned “deferral” time for men who had sex with men was 12 months of celibacy.
Furthermore, HIV and other blood-borne pathogens are in no way limited to men who have sex with men. HIV may be acquired by men or women who inject drugs, or through heterosexual contact, especially among non-monogamous couples. Data fromnotes that people who acquired HIV through heterosexual contact made up 22% of HIV diagnoses in 2020.
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