Lift the FDA ban on donating blood by Gay & Bisexual Men in the U.S. Repeal the FDA's longstanding prohibition on gay and bisexual men from donating blood for life – in place since 1985.
Lift the FDA ban on donating blood by Gay & Bisexual Men in the U.S. Repeal the FDA's longstanding prohibition on gay and bisexual men from donating blood for life – in place since 1985.
The Issue
The ban contributes to a dangerously and chronically low blood supply in a country in which approximately just 5% of all eligible donors give.
FDA modified its blood donor policy in 1992 as new scientific data and more accurate tests for HIV and hepatitis became available. Today, the risk of getting HIV from a blood transfusion has been reduced to about one per two million units of blood transfused.
The current policy is undermining one's equal rights as an American citizen, it is also hindering one's ability to serve his/her community and help those in need with the valuable benefits that donating blood, or any blood product, brings to the more than 5 million people a year that receive a blood transfusion.
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The Issue
The ban contributes to a dangerously and chronically low blood supply in a country in which approximately just 5% of all eligible donors give.
FDA modified its blood donor policy in 1992 as new scientific data and more accurate tests for HIV and hepatitis became available. Today, the risk of getting HIV from a blood transfusion has been reduced to about one per two million units of blood transfused.
The current policy is undermining one's equal rights as an American citizen, it is also hindering one's ability to serve his/her community and help those in need with the valuable benefits that donating blood, or any blood product, brings to the more than 5 million people a year that receive a blood transfusion.
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Petition created on October 20, 2014