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Gay men to achieve parity when it comes to blood donation (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Homosexual men in Switzerland will be treated on par with heterosexuals when it comes to the mandatory waiting period prior to donating blood.

The Swiss medicines regulator Swissmedic has approved the request to amend the criteria for men who have sex with men.

Until 2017, gay men were completely excluded from donating blood. Since then, they have only been eligible to donate blood if they have not had sex with men in the last 12 months.

Soon however, the same rules will apply to heterosexual as well as homosexual sexual contacts.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

About time. Glad we made this progress and removed another piece of bigotry from our daily lives.