In a victory for LGBTQ rights, a broad swath of the U.S. population of gay and bisexual men are newly eligible to donate blood.
on Aug. 5 further found that those who have a detectable but relatively low viral load, of 1,000 or below, still have an “almost zero” chance of transmitting the virus.
The new FDA screening policy forbids donations from anyone, regardless of their sex, who reports that within the past three months they have had a new sexual partner or multiple partners and who during that time have had anal sex. Consequently, a population of heterosexuals who are not in monogamous long-term relationships are now newly ineligible to donate blood. A 2020 studyDr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, the new head of the American Medical Association, who is the first openly gay person to hold that post, characterized the former FDA blood screening policy as based on “outdated categorical restrictions."
“This policy change will ensure that blood donation criteria are applied more equitably across all segments of our population, including the LGBTQ+ community,” he said.estimated that people having receptive anal intercourse without a condom with a partner who has untreated HIV are 10 to 20 times more likely to contract the virus than a woman having vaginal sex or a male having insertive anal sex.
But gay and bi men are far more likely to be exposed to HIV in the first place. Dr. Patrick Sullivan, a professor of epidemiology at Emory University, said he roughly estimates that men who have sex with men acquire HIV at a rate 400 times greater than heterosexual men.
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