{"id":37518,"date":"2020-04-17T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=37518"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:11:37","slug":"fda-reduces-restrictions-on-gay-men-donating-blood-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/37518","title":{"rendered":"FDA reduces restrictions on gay men donating blood in the US due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/><\/span>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 2 April 2020, an indication of the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis in the US has been new FDA recommendations that reduces earlier restrictions on gay men (or straight partners of gay men) donating blood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 12-month period of abstinence has been reduced to not having had sex in the previous three months.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines notes that the urgent need for the crisis response doesn\u2019t allow time for public consultation, but that the recommendations are only to cover this COVID-19 crisis period.<\/p>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p>FDA. Revised recommendations for reducing the risk of HIV transmission by blood and blood products (2 April 2020).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/revised-recommendations-reducing-risk-human-immunodeficiency-virus-transmission-blood-and-blood\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/regulatory-information\/search-fda-guidance-documents\/revised-recommendations-reducing-risk-human-immunodeficiency-virus-transmission-blood-and-blood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/92490\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/92490\/download<\/a> (direct download)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On 2 April 2020, an indication of the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis in the US has been new FDA recommendations that reduces earlier restrictions on gay men (or straight partners of gay men) donating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,291,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-transmission","category-covid-19-other","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}