Today, we finalized recommendations for assessing blood donor eligibility using a set of individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV.

These questions will be the same for every donor, regardless of sexual orientation, sex or gender. Blood establishments may now implement these recommendations by revising their donor history questionnaires and procedures.

This still isn’t enough. You’re still discriminating against men who sleep with men. You test all blood, there’s literally no reason for you to keep discriminating.

Ryan White and Arthur Ashe have entered the chat. Oh wait, no they haven't. Maybe ask their corpses why they cannot enter the chat.

Why not just take the donors blood and run tests on it to verify that its clean.

Vaids

AIDS and Hepatitis for everyone!

So can I donate blood now even though I lived in Europe in the 80s? Have you made a test for mad cow yet?

Tell me you still favor straight people to donate blood without telling me. Nice try, but all these new rules discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community still. Event though we take more steps to avoid HIV transmission. This is a bad joke.

YDK people lie, right? In Cal it was so bad, they had to reduce the penalty for fear of jailing SF.

Not good enough. You're still slut shaming people for their sexual activity. I have remained HIV- for 57 years. Who I sleep with, how often and what we do is none of your business. People shouldn't have to lie to donate blood. Period.