It was long overdue and not enough when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it had issued new guidance for gay and bi men donating blood.
On April 3, the FDA said that men who have sex with men can donate blood if they've been celibate for three months. The celibacy requirement had been 12 months and before that it was a lifetime ban.
The justification was that in 1983, there wasn't a way to detect antibodies to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in blood. Today that is.