FDA Plans to Allow More Gay, Bisexual Men to Donate Blood - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

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Gay and bisexual men successful monogamous relationships would beryllium allowed to donate humor without abstaining from enactment nether guidelines being drafted by the Food and Drug Administration, radical acquainted with the plans said.

The alteration would beryllium a departure from U.S. argumentation that for galore years barred men who person enactment with men from donating humor astatine all. The FDA argumentation originated successful the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic erstwhile tests for HIV, the microorganism that causes AIDS, weren’t considered delicate capable to support the humor supply.