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U.K. to ease blood donation restrictions for gay, bisexual men

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The British government on Monday announced it will ease restrictions on gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock in a press release notes “donors who have had one sexual partner and who have been with their sexual partner for more than three months will be eligible to donate regardless of their gender, the gender of their partner or the type of sex they have.” The press release notes the new policy will take effect in the U.K.

next summer. The country previously allowed gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they hadn’t had sex for three months. The press release also notes gay and bisexual men under the new policy will “no longer be asked to declare if they have had sex with another man

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