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Northern California colleges ban campus blood drives due to FDA’s policies on MSM
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Northern California colleges ban campus blood drives due to FDA’s policies on MSM

Some colleges in Northern California are banning campus blood drives, citing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) lifetime ban on blood donated by men who have (or have had) sex with men (MSM) a violation of the schools’ nondiscrimination policies.

Some healthcare advocates maintain that the FDA’s policy is justified because, as the FDA suggests, lifting the ban on donations from MSM could increase the risk of HIV transmission through blood donations because of the increased potential for the presence of the virus in this population. Blood bank officials, however, have said that the decrease in campus blood dives could severely impact the blood banks’ ability to maintain adequate blood supplies.

 

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