In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the annual ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map shows we have come to a pivotal moment for LGBTI people’s human rights in the region.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has overturned rules that limit gay and bisexual men from donating blood in a decision considered a human rights victory for LGBT+ people in the country.
The NSW government is set to ease restrictions preventing gay men from donating blood and redress discriminatory red-tape to shore up blood supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Donors are being turned away despite a blood shortage and even though a test program seeks plasma with antibodies from coronavirus survivors. Here's why.
We are collectively obligated to immediately create policies and promote public health interventions that effectively address the many downstream crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has evaluated an application submitted by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood (Lifeblood) which proposes to reduce the deferral period for donors of whole blood with a sexual activity-based risk factor from 12 to three months since the last sexual contact.
In order to save lives in the corona crisis, the FDP demands that the Federal Minister of Health immediately lift the ban on blood donation for gay and bisexual men as well as for trans people.
Currently men who have had sex with other men cannot give blood for three months. Ian Boulton, chair of the South Gloucestershire LGBT+ Equality Network, says the rule is wrong when male blood is desperately needed.
Denmark has fallen in line with other countries and is set to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood – but only if they abstain from sex for four months.
The NHS has revealed it is desperate for more male blood donations but the campaign has led some men to speak out about the difficulties they have experienced trying to donate.
