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Tuberville’s hold leaves Marines leaderless for first time in 164 years This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.Ī record share of Americans is living alone Are these questions going to be more inclusive?” TagsĬopyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. “That’s the next step too … how it’s rolled out and how the community actually is asked, you know. “It’s going to depend on how the questions are asked because the FDA is not going to determine how these blood banks ask the questions or what verbiage will be used specifically,” James said. How these blood centers adopt the new rules and the individual risk-based questions will also determine whether more members of the LGBTQ community donate blood, according to activists. America’s Blood Centers said shortly after the new rules were finalized that it would welcome newly eligible donors “as soon as possible.”
The Red Cross has said it plans to implement the new guidelines starting Aug. What to know about the new Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi According to James, many gay and bisexual men often feel, “They didn’t want our blood then, they don’t get it now.” But this has also been the first year he has begun to hear from other organizations around the country who wish to host blood drives like his that reach out to the gay community.įive things to watch for at a crucial NATO summit James’s organization regularly hosts blood drives in partnership with the Red Cross. “People who’ve had exposure to antiretrovirals essentially have different patterns of disease detection,” Patel said. If the virus is blunted by PrEP, those antibodies may never be created, thus resulting in a false negative. Traditional HIV testing looks for antibodies made in response to HIV. She noted that in some cases, people taking oral PrEP never tested positive. Individuals taking oral PrEP who wish to donate blood would need to abstain from taking the medicine for three months, while those who receive an injection of medicine to prevent HIV infection would need to wait at least two years to donate.Īccording to Rupa Patel, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at Whitman-Walker Health, if a breakthrough HIV infection were to occur in someone taking PrEP, there is a chance that person would not test positive for three months or more. In its final guidance, the FDA cited concerns about “transfusion transmission of HIV” due to medications like PrEP resulting in false negatives. She said the policy excluding those on PrEP creates a “basis of discrimination.” Kendall Martinez-Wright is a policy associate at the Treatment Action Group (TAG), an advocacy organization with the goal of ending diseases like HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis.
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