“My blood could save a life but instead it's over here boiling,” Andy Cohen said
— a component of blood that is rich in antibodies — to help fight the illness, but when Cohen signed up for a study to donate he was told he is ineligible.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
“I was told that due to antiquated and discriminatory guidelines by the FDA to prevent HIV, I am ineligible to donate blood because I am a gay man,” he shared. “Even the new relaxed rules require gay men to abstain from sex for three months, whether they’re in a monogamous relationship or not, before giving blood.”, which were set in 2015, the FDA recommended that gay and bisexual men wait for 12 months before making a donation.
Prior to 2015, sexually active gay and bisexual men were banned for life from making donations, a policy that had been in place since 1983, when there was no way to test donations for HIV, according to while the 12-month deferral period was still in place, an additional 360,000 men would likely have donated blood had it been lifted, which “could be used to help save the lives of more than a million people.
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