The FDA relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men who have sex with men. Now the agency is being asked to change its sperm donation rules.
Families, medical groups and sperm banks are asking the agency to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to be donors
Caroline and Suzanne Currie, who is holding their second daughter. The couple has each given birth in recent years to a child using the same donor’s sperm.After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020by men who have sex with men. Now the agency is being asked to consider revising its policy again—this time to facilitate sperm donations by these men.
The FDA requires sperm banks to test all donors for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and other pathogens and to quarantine vials for at least six months so that the donors can be retested. In addition to establishing these precautions, the agency has long prohibited donations from men who acknowledge having had a male sex partner within the previous five years.
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