The HHS, or Health and Human Services Advisory Committee has voted to keep the ban on blood donated by gay men. Forget that this decision is against all scientific fact. Forget that Congress urged them to drop it. Forget that the American Red Cross, the AMA, America’s Blood Centers and the American Association of Blood Banks have all urged them to drop it, and certainly forget that the ban on gay men donating blood is irrational and has no foundation in truth or logic.
So if you’re a man who’s had sex with another man at least once since 1977 you cannot donate blood.
And we continue to slide backward into oblivion.
