Health Canada ends ban on blood donations from gay men It could also increase the pool of blood donors. If anything, it will make it safer by weeding those who are truly at higher risk. This move will not make the blood supply less safe. This is what the science says we should have been doing long ago.
What Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec (the agencies responsible for blood collection) will now do is screen potential high-donors for risky behaviours instead of gender or sexuality. It’s about a generation too late, but Canada has finally gotten around to scrapping the shamefully homophobic ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men.
