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OTTAWA — The policy banning gay men from donating blood in Canada is outdated and discriminatory, according to a group of AIDS researchers who argue that changing it would be beneficial to the whole blood system.
Ban On Gay Blood Donors Outdated: Researchers
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In an article published May 25 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Mark Wainberg, director of the McGill AIDS Centre at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, Norbert Gilmore, another prominent AIDS researcher at the centre, Talia Shuldiner and Karine Dahl, say the refusal to accept donated blood from men who have had sex with men made sense when the policy was introduced in 1983, but not anymore.
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