{"id":174848,"date":"2019-01-04T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starobserver.com.au\/?p=174848"},"modified":"2019-01-04T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:16:14","slug":"iceland-considers-ending-ban-on-gay-and-bisexual-men-donating-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starobserver.com.au\/news\/international-news-news\/iceland-considers-ending-ban-on-gay-and-bisexual-men-donating-blood\/174848","title":{"rendered":"Iceland considers ending ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A chief epidemiologist has said Iceland should remove its ban on men who have sex with men donating blood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iceland\u2019s Minister of Health Svand\u00eds Svavarsd\u00f3ttir is awaiting the results of a review she ordered into the country\u2019s current regulations, specifically citing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/starobserver.com.au\/news\/international-news-news\/denmark-lift-ban-gay-bisexual-men-donating-blood\/171358\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Denmark\u2019s decision to end its own ban<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on gay and bi men donating, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/grapevine.is\/news\/2019\/01\/03\/icelands-ban-on-gay-men-giving-blood-may-be-lifted-soon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reykjav\u00edk Grapevine<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believe that given what other people in Europe have done, we can leave behind a total ban and move on to having an abstinence period of some months,\u201d epidemiologist \u00de\u00f3r\u00f3lfur Gu\u00f0nason <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/haegt-ad-afletta-algeru-banni-vid-blodgjof\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u00daV<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Iceland is currently one of at least 18 countries around the world which has an outright ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFirst of all, in this group there is an increased chance that their blood could be carrying HIV or hepatitis C,\u201d said Gu\u00f0nason, explaining his recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are individuals in this group who are practicing safe sex, and are therefore not at risk, while there are others, with a more liberal sex life, who are more likely to spread these kinds of infections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Iceland were to drop its ban it would join Denmark, Malta, Taiwan, and Israel which have all made the same decision in the past year, although the new deferral periods their respective health bodies have implemented range from 4 months (Denmark) to 5 years (Taiwan).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Australia there is currently a one year deferral period, meaning any man who has had sex with a man in the last 12 months is ineligible to give blood, regardless of their serostatus or personal risk of infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisSteelMLA\/status\/1074825653160046592\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">successfully moved to amend the Labor Party\u2019s national platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to act to reduce the deferral period in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere have been several occasions where I have sought to donate blood and I have been shocked that such an exclusion existed, particularly given the research and advances in testing,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/barr-to-push-for-labor-to-support-blood-donations-from-gay-men-20181212-p50lt4.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just think that we need to look at the science and make decisions that are based on science not on prejudice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early 2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/starobserver.com.au\/news\/tga-rejects-blood-donation-ban-reduction-for-gay-men\/117052\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Therapeutics Goods Administration chose not to support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Australian Red Cross Blood Service\u2019s proposal that the sexual activity deferral period be changed from 12 months to 6, despite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donateblood.com.au\/sexual-activity-deferral-review\/2012-Review\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recommendations handed down by an expert external review committee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starobserver.com.au\/news\/national-news\/call-end-gay-blood-donor-discrimination\/157915\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in the wake of calls<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to bring forward its latest review into sexual activity deferral periods the Blood Service <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donateblood.com.au\/sexual-activity-deferral-review\/update\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has recently received its latest report from a new committee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the topic, but the contents of the report are yet to be made public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The founder of Australia\u2019s largest grassroots movement for people living with HIV <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theinstituteofmany.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Institute of Many<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nic Holas, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/starobserver.com.au\/news\/national-news\/most-ethical-gay-men-donate-blood-end-hiv\/164307\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has previously written for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Observer<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the importance of connecting the movement to end restrictions on blood donations to the fight to end HIV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGay and bi men in monogamous relationships may often wonder why they can\u2019t donate blood. Shouldn\u2019t it only be men engaging in activities that place them at risk of contracting HIV who are banned?\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA portion of our community is more focused on outward respectability than our community\u2019s health and wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve said this before, but it bears repeating: the most inclusive, ethical way to allow gay or bi men to donate blood is to end HIV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnything else is a slap in the face for those of us living with the virus, an insult to the decades of activism and organising, and a forgetting of those lost to the AIDS crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re still here, and we\u2019re not going to be pushed aside in the quest to make gay men seem more respectable. That isn\u2019t equality, it\u2019s erasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou should be able to donate blood. You should also be able to live free of fear of contracting HIV, of your friends contracting HIV, of finally being clear of decades of intergenerational fear and stigma. The latter would lead to the former. So why not join, or rejoin, the fight?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland is the latest country to review its regulations on men who have sex with men blood donation, as Australia awaits latest recommendation from the Red Cross Blood Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":165386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11208],"tags":[1472,22674,29575,34460,25916,6089,90,20747,25065,34461,26408],"class_list":["post-174848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-news","tag-andrew-barr","tag-ban","tag-blood","tag-deferral","tag-denmark","tag-hepatitis-c","tag-hiv","tag-iceland","tag-nic-holas","tag-svandis-svavarsdottir","tag-the-institute-of-many"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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