New Blood Rules Giving Aussie Girl Hope

New blood rules giving Aussie girl hope

A 10-year old Australian girl who relies on blood donations to stay alive says she has a better chance at life from new rules that allow gay and bisexual men and transgender women to donate plasma.

Gay men in Australia can now donate blood. Why has it taken so long? - The Morning Edition

Donating blood is an important community service – one that’s desperately needed for patients, in life-threatening conditions. But up until now, those identifying as gay, bisexual or transgender had effectively been banned from donating. A lift on that ban will now significantly expand Australia’s donor pool at a time when blood - specifically plasma - is most needed by patients. But for many in the LGBTQ+  community, the changes are long overdu…

End of the gay blood donation ban

The activists who lobbied for decades against the ban on blood donations from the queer community can finally celebrate the removal of this stigma – a relic of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Hope for critically ill Aussies after blood donation ban lifted

Blood donors will soon be individually risk assessed, rather than certain members of the community being excluded by default.