The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced draft guidelines that would do away with the current three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with men. Instead, all potential donors would be screened with a new questionnaire that evaluates their individual risks for HIV.
In 2015, a lifetime ban placed during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s was replaced with a one-year abstinence requirement. In 2020, that dropped to three-month due.