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๐Ÿฉธ Many countries have banned gay and bisexual men from giving blood since the 1980s.

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ But attitudes and rules have changed over the past few years.

๐Ÿ‘‡ For #WorldBloodDonorDay, we look at the history of the laws and which countries are making progress. ๐Ÿงต Participants in the annual ...A man donates blood at the ...Outbreak of the coronavirus...French ACT UP demonstrators...
๐Ÿ”ด Why do blood donation bans exist in the first place?

๐ŸŒ Many countries introduced controls during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981 among gay men in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Bags with donated blood lie...
โญ•๏ธ By the end of the year, there were 337 reported cases of what was then known as a โ€œgay-related immune deficiencyโ€.

130 people had died.

๐ŸŒ Four years later, there was at least one reported AIDS case in every region of the world. Hundreds of members of the ...
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