A group of Democratic lawmakers Monday urged Health and Human Services (HHS) officials to move swiftly on a pilot study on blood-donor policies so that the "indefensible" and "discriminatory" ban on donations by gay and bisexual men can be lifted.
The HHS pilot study should explore ways to distinguish high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) from low-risk MSM "to avoid deferring low-risk, healthy, and viable blood donors from within the MSM community from donating blood," Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and Rep. Mike Quigley, Illinois Democrat, wrote in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Ten other Senate Democrats plus Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with them, also signed.....
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