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Calls to end 'outdated' ban as Aussie blood supplies drop to dangerous levels
Thousands are waiting to donate, but the government won't let them. Find out why.
Gay Men Should Be Able To Give Blood, Says Victorian Liberal MP Matt Bach - Star Observer
Should we continue to discriminate against up to 12 per cent of Australians because of our own irrational fears? writes Matt Bach MP about Australia's gay blood ban.
Croome 'disappointed' by health minister's gay blood ban stance
'State ministers are required to sign off on blood donor policy.'
Queensland Pushes For Lifting Gay Blood Ban - Star Observer
Queensland's Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has called on the federal government to end Australia's four-decade-old gay blood ban.
Restrictions on gay men donating blood should be scrapped, Queensland health minister says
Exclusive: Shannon Fentiman urges federal government to ‘expedite’ individual risk assessments
Labor praised for supporting end to gay, bi & trans blood donation restrictions - OUTIn...
OUTinPerth is WA's LGBTQIA+ publication, bringing you the latest in news, politics, culture and the arts.
Labor Party Votes Towards Ending Gay Blood Ban - Star Observer
The Australian Labor Party has voted towards adopting individual risk assessments for all blood donors, in aiming to end the gay blood ban. During Labor’s National Conference in Brisbane, delegates supported a motion allowing men who have sex with men ...
Let Us Give on The Drum
Watch the full video: Let Us Give spoke with ABC The Drum on why it is time to lift the gay blood ban.
We Can Have A Safe Blood Supply And Donor Equality - New Matilda
Australia’s policies on blood donation within the GBT community are out of step with international norms, writes Dr Sharon Dane and Rodney Croome. The lifting of restrictions on people with new tattoos giving blood highlights another contentious restri...
"Years away": Why Gay Australian men can’t give blood - The Briefing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially dropped restrictions that prohibit gay and bisexual men from donating blood. The ban was implemented in 1983 for men who have sex with men due to the AIDS epidemic. In today’s episode of the Brief...
The US has become the latest nation to remove its 'gay blood ban'. Will Australia follow?
The Unites States is joining countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada in easing its blood donation restrictions. Why doesn't Australia?
OPINION | Tainted blood: Canada shows the way on gay blood donation
The Red Cross has a new rationale for blocking gay blood donation, and it’s just as bad as the rest says Rodney Croome from the Let Us Give campaign.
Lifting the ban - what does the research say?
Dr Sharon Dane joins Rodney Croome to discuss the latest research into gay blood donation and why this research boosts the case for Australia to drop its current gay blood ban and adopt individual risk assessment instead.
Is Lifeblood's plasma pathway best way forward for LGBTQ+ donors? OUTInPerth
Equality campaign Let Us Give questions plasma pathway, urging instead for a move towards individual risk assessments to allow more LGBTQ+ people to give whole blood.
Australia's Lifeblood Weighing Rule Change For Gay Plasma Donation - Star Observer
Lifting the current ban on plasma donation by gay and bisexual men, and trans women and some non binary people who have sex with men, will not solve the problem of Australia's dangerously low supplies of whole blood, says activist.
Let Us Give on Studio 10
Watch Let Us Give campaign advocate Thomas Buxereau as a guest on Channel 10’s Studio 10 on Tuesday 14 June 2022.
Push to lift gay blood donation ban amid shortage
Equality advocates are urging Lifeblood to screen donors on their sexual activity rather than place a blanket ban on men who are sexually active with men.
Call for change to blood donation laws to address plummetting supply
Let Us Give campaign calls for changes to blood donation screening to allow gay men, gay men, bisexual...
Let Us Give campaign highlights inequality on World Blood Donor Day - OUTInPerth | LGBT...
OUTinPerth is WA's LGBTQIA+ publication, bringing you the latest in news, politics, culture and the arts.
Joe wants to donate blood. He can't because of his sexuality
Canada, France, Greece, Lithuania and Austria have all removed restrictions on gay and bisexual men donating blood this year. On World Blood Donor Day there are renewed calls for Australia to do the same.
Let them give: Campaign calls to allow gay men to donate blood
"The same questions should be asked of everyone."
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