GMHC Statement in Response to Potential Changes to the FDA Blood Ban

GMHC, founded in 1982 as the world’s first HIV and AIDS services organization, is responding to news first reported in the Wall Street Journal that the FDA will implement a new individual risk assessment that could allow gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) to donate blood if they have not had a nal sex with a new partner in the previous three months . This includes MSM in monogamous relationships or who have been celibate. Current ly , the FDA requires all MSM to be celibate for three months in order to donate blood and plasma.