The agency says it hopes to apply to Health Canada by the end of 2021 to have that criteria removed, moving away from a blanket ban to a screening process instead that asks about sexual behaviour, as it does for other donors.
Men who have had sexual contact with another man in the last three months are still not eligible to donate blood. It contains nutrients and immune molecules like antibodies, and donations can be done more frequently than blood donations. Since then, HIV has become treatable and men taking PrEP are at an extremely low risk of catching HIV.By continuing the ban you are depriving recipients of blood.- is the straw-coloured liquid component left when blood cells are removed from whole blood. My blood is a rare type and used to donate regularly before gay men were banned.
