One of the most important developments in Australian blood donation policy is happening in Tasmania right now.

A young gay man, Michael Cain, is challenging the unfair and outdated policy which rules out all donations from gay men,including those who have safe sex, but allows donations from heterosexuals who have unsafe sex.

 

Michael’s case before the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has the potential to replace Australia’s generation-old blood donation guidelines with a policy that will make more blood available for transfusion and that will ensure this blood is even safer than it is now.

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case and blood donation policy in Australia.click here

Around the world a rapidly increasing

number of health experts, blood collection

agencies and national governments are

reforming their blood donation guidelines.

Like Michael Cain, they support a policy

which screens all potential donors for the

safety of their sexual activity not the gender

of their sexual partners.

Italy and Spain were the first countries to

replace their bans on gay blood donation

with a ban on anyone who has unsafe sex.

Health care and blood collection agencies in

other European countries and in America

have called for the same policy.

Michael Cain’s case is part of a world-wide

movement for change.

Learn more about blood donation around the

world.   click here