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March 18, 2010

US Reviewing Restrictions on Gay Blood Donors
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Federal health officials have announced they’re reviewing a nearly
thirty-year-old policy restricting blood donations by gay males. The
policy imposes a lifetime ban on blood donations from men who’ve had sex
with another man at any time since 1977. Last week, Democratic Senator
John Kerry spearheaded a letter signed by seventeen other senators
calling on the Food and Drug Administration to revisit the policy,
calling it “outdated, medically and scientifically unsound.”



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