22 Dec 2020

The ban on blood donations by gay men

From Afternoons, 1:12 pm on 22 December 2020

New Zealand is making inroads to change the rules regarding blood donation by gay and bisexual men, but the bans internationally are unjust, unscientific and inconsistent with HIV prevention approaches.

Dr Peter Saxton from Auckland University's School of Population Health has outlined in Newsroom the reasons why the rules should be changed and what's happening here.

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