Submitted on Saturday 25th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 6th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Remove the outdated restrictions on blood donation by gay and bisexual men.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Blood plasma is needed for research.
However, men who have sex with men (MSM) are banned from donating blood by a blanket 3 month ban.
The ban is based on stigma and outdated information, and stops men from helping research and save lives.
Earlier this month, GLADD released an open letter from 500 scientists and medical professionals directed to the FDA to remove their donation bans.
https://www.glaad.org/blog/open-letter-fda-medical-professionals
The rules are based on a stigma of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
Times have changed since then. The UK has a relatively small number of HIV positive people and of that only 53% of that are MSM.(2017)
https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/western-central-europe-north-america/uk
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313693
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