ARUP Blood Services is the first blood donation service in Utah to follow the new FDA guidance, which no long bars men from such donations based on their sexual orientation.
guidance, which no long bars men from such donations based on their sexual orientation. Those restrictions were imposed amid the AIDS epidemic, but have since been scrutinized as discriminatory, outdated and “a barrier to bolstering the nation’s blood supply,” ARUP said in a news release.on male donors who have sex with men and replaced it with a yearlong deferral, which meant such donors could only give blood if they had not had sex with a man within a year of their donation date.
The survey will ask if a prospective donor has had anal sex with a new partner, or multiple partners, in the last three months, according to the FDA. Those who answer yes will be deferred from donations for three months. The administration does not advise anyone to stop taking those medications to donate blood, and said it will continue evaluating data and technological developments to inform its donor eligibility recommendations.
Blood donation centers receive new recommendations from the FDA and update their processes accordingly “every once in a while,” ARUP spokesperson Deb Jordan said. For instance, ARUP made changes earlier this year, when the FDA opened up blood donations to people who lived, worked or served in the military or on a religious mission in part of Europe in the ’80s and ’90s, Jordan said. Those people had previously been deferred from donating blood because of mad cow disease concerns.
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