Senators call for end to ban on blood donations from gay men

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Seventeen Democrat senators and one independent have called to end America’s ban on gay men donating blood.

The 1983 rule is “outdated, medically and scientifically unsound”, they argued in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday.

Senator John Kerry, who is leading the campaign, said in a statement: “Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban. A law that was once considered medically justified is today simply outdated and needs to end, just as last year we ended the travel ban against those with HIV.”

More at PinkNews UK.

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