In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting blood shortage, the Food and Drug Administration has shortened the deferral period for gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood.Men who have sex with men should now be able to donate blood if they have not had sex with another man in the past three months, down from a year under the previous FDA recommendation.
At one point MSM were barred from donating blood altogether, under policies adopted at the height of the AIDS epidemic and before