The Food and Drug Administration is changing its policy to make it easier for gay men to donate blood.

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FDA Eases Rules for Blood Donations for Gay Men

And now we want to move to what the FDA is doing. It's making it easier for gay and bisexual men to donate blood. As of today, these men will no longer have to abstain from sex before donating. In the eighties, the FDA implemented more restrictions on blood donations. Those were mostly rolled back in 2015. This new policy goes into effect later this year. According to this policy. So long as they have not had any sexual partners in the last three months, gay and bisexual men can donate blood advocates are applauding these changes, but some critics say that the new policy does not go far enough. This policy changes happening at the same time that the US is struggling with ongoing blood shortages after the pandemic.