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Great Britain lifts lifetime ban on gay, bisexual men donating blood
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Sep 08, 2011 08:47am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Melanie Eversley |
| News Date | Thursday, September 8, 2011 01:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | England, Scotland and Wales have decided to lift a lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, reversing a practice that's been in place about 30 years, The BBC is reporting. Any man who has not had sex with another man for 12 months prior may donate blood, according to The BBC.
The three countries that make up Great Britain initially put the practice in place in the early 1980s to limit introduction of HIV into the blood supply, the news organization reports. The countries also lacked adequate HIV testing at the time, and most new HIV cases in the United Kingdom originate from men having sex with men.
But with improvements in blood screening over the years, research in Great Britain and in other parts of the world is showing that accepting blood from gay and bisexual men or other at-risk groups does not seem to increase risk of HIV infection, The BBC reports. |
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