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25.01.2022 Please let Dan Andrews know how you feel about the current ban on MSM blood donations! Comment. Share. Email or Call https://www.facebook.com//a.14918587514/3608028705928306/

25.01.2022 Welcome to Wednesday! The sun is up... the discriminatory ban on gay blood is still a thing... Let’s give it another good gay go for Ky from Canberra. Let’s sign this petition, let’s talk about it, let’s keep raising awareness. https://www.change.org/p/allourblood

24.01.2022 #DiscriminationRoast

22.01.2022 Although not lifting the restrictions completely, it is a move forward.

17.01.2022 ‘The agency is changing the recommended deferral period for men who have had sex with another man from 12 months to three months. Restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, and other groups considered to be high risk for HIV or AIDS transmission, date back to the 1980's.’ Let’s hope these changes are here to stay.

14.01.2022 As long as we keep asking the question and talking about it enough people will hear.

14.01.2022 It would have worked so much better with a rainbow version

12.01.2022 AOC take my blood!!! "Representatives Adam Schiff (CA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Barbara Lee (TX), and Carolyn Maloney (NY) introduced the resolution calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop using sexual orientation to assess potential blood donors and to instead evaluate a donor’s risk based on an individual, science-based assessment." https://www.lgbtqnation.com//house-democrats-introduce-re/

11.01.2022 "On Wednesday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced it had approved a submission to reduce the waiting period for whole blood donors with a "sexual activity-based risk factor" from 12 to three months since their last sexual contact. But LGBTIQ+ advocates have called for the complete removal of the restriction on gay men donating blood, describing the reduction in time as a "window dressing". Still, who would have thought all we needed was another global pandem...ic to get a push in the right direction! Let's go TGA, let's not wait another 30 years... https://www.sbs.com.au//relaxed-restrictions-on-lgbtiq-blo

10.01.2022 NYTimes: Enabling greater numbers of gay men to donate blood is a victory for science and a defeat for stigma. It’s good news not only for those of us blocked from donating since 1983, but for anyone involved in the battle against the coronavirus in other words, for every one of us. https://www.inquirer.com//coronavirus-covid-blood-donation

06.01.2022 Yesterday the ACT Legislative Assembly moved a motion moved by Chris Steel MLA called on the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and Federal Minister for Health to: a. consider a reduction of the deferral period for non-plasma blood donations to three months, in line with the recent policy of the United Kingdom; b. consider the elimination of all deferral periods for plasma-only donations, in line with the policy of France and Israel; c. consider a greater ...role for individual risk-based assessments in the blood donation process; and d. adopt the recommendations of the expert panel undertaking the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Review of Australian Blood Donor Deferrals relating to Sexual Activity. Full videos here: http://aod.parliament.act.gov.au/A69763

06.01.2022 We've made the News! The stunningly passionate Liz Gwynn kindly asked us to participate in her piece on the blood equality controversy and here we are sharing our two cents on tv! The prominently featured ACT Minister, Chris Steel, is a fervent supporter of an immediate review of the current deferral policy and the introduction of Individual Risk Assessment. ... At Homoglobin people like Liz and Chris get their own special booth in the loud, sticky, rainbow lazered, smoked up dance club that we call 'our hearts'. Apparently it was very well received by thousands of viewers. We're all doing our best to keep raising awareness around the discriminatory 12-month deferral. Please like, comment or repost this video or your own blood equality story to the four corners of the web. https://www.prime7.com.au//9322-blood-donor-discrimination

05.01.2022 The report from a second blood service-commissioned review is expected to be given to the regulator by the end of 2019. "If this recommended a lesser deferral period again and the Therapeutic Goods Administration didn't accept the expert recommendation, its motives should be questioned [...] If they don't accept the recommendation, I think it warrants a federal inquiry into that decision to provide greater accountability ... [for] quite an unaccountable body," Mr Steel said. ...We need more leaders like Chris Steel pushing for what is RIGHT and not what is easy. https://www.canberratimes.com.au//crazy-gay-blood-donati/

05.01.2022 Well done to the UK. Let’s hope this trend continues around the world.

05.01.2022 Have you ever heard of On-Demand PrEP? On-demand PrEP is also known as event-based PrEP or PrEP 2-1-1. It involves taking two tablets 2 to 24 hours before engaging in sex, taking a single tablet 24 hours after the first two, and another tablet 24 hours after that. It is highly effective. PrEP is recommended for people who are at high risk of getting HIV. You are at high risk if you:... Are a man who has anal sex with other men and do not always use a condom. Have a heterosexual partner who has HIV and you want to have a baby. Are someone whose partner has HIV, but is not taking HIV medication, and you don’t always use a condom.

04.01.2022 There should not be rules to break!

03.01.2022 Injectable, long lasting PrEP! Pretty cool stuff https://www.nih.gov//long-acting-injectable-form-hiv-preve

03.01.2022 Since then blood testing has improved immensely, rates of HIV infection among gay man have decreased, and Australians have shown they support inclusion and equality for LGBTIQ+ people. Dudman said it was time for a new blood donation policy that screens potential donors for the safety of the sexual activity, not the gender of their sexual partners. https://qnews.com.au/gay-tasmanian-man-calls-for-change-t/

01.01.2022 HIV rates among heterosexuals on the rise in Australia. Even more than ever, we should be pushing for Individual Risk Assessments for blood donations in Australia.