November 2000 Cover
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The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) scientific advisers rejected a proposal to lift the ban on gay
men donating blood, with a 7-to-6 vote. The advisers cited a lack of evidence showing that the nation's blood
supply is safe from AIDS.
Men who have had sex with men, even just once, since 1977 are not allowed to donate blood. The
policy was adopted in 1985. The policy changebeing debated at a time when the nation faces a severe blood
shortagecould have resulted in about 62,300 gay men, or men who had gay sex once, potentially donating blood.
Editor's Note: from The New York Times
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