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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first

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Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

The Lifeblood service says the changes will have no impact on safety but will boost the donor pool.

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…why was that ban in effect to begin with? I can understand during the 80s, with the misunderstandings of AIDS.

Basically by 1992, this shouldn’t have been a thing.
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  That’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.

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