The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed who it said could safely donate organs and blood, reducing the restrictions on men who have had sex with another man.
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Moore and a Colorado doctor named Michael Puente Jr. started a campaign called "Legalize Gay Eyes" and together got the attention of national eye groups and lawmakers. Since 2022, the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research has put changes to the tissue guidance on its agenda but has yet to act on them.
The agency routinely reviews donor screening and testing "to determine what changes, if any, are appropriate based on technological and evolving scientific knowledge," the statement said. The FDA provided a similar response to Neguse in 2022. He found that, in one year alone, at least 360 people were rejected as cornea donors because they were men who had had sex with another man in the past five years, or in the past year in the case of Canadian donors.
Related Stories"Very low, but not zero," said Sridhar Basavaraju, who was one of the researchers on that study and directs the CDC's Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety. He said the risk of undetected hepatitis B is slightly higher "but still low."
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