Orlando Shooting Revives Debate over Restricting Blood Donations by Gay Men

Redhead, C. S.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Medicine;    Blood;    Blood donors;   

RP-ID  :  IN10535
RP-ID  :  IN10535_2016Aug01

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses new FDA guidance regarding blood donations from sexually-active gay men. Since the 1980s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that men who have sex with men (MSM) be indefinitely deferred (i.e., permanently banned) from donating blood. This action was taken to help control the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the blood supply.