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Principles Regarding the FDA’s Prohibition on Men Who Have Sex With Men from Donating Blood AND SPERM

1.             URGES the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state governments, and sperm banks throughout the United States to revise donation screening guidelines, policies, and regulations to reflect the current scientific knowledge about HIV; (2006)

2.             STRONGLY URGES the above named bodies to enact policies that create equivalent standards of evaluating transmissible disease risks with regard to sperm donations and that allow HIV-negative persons, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity, the opportunity to donate blood and to become known or anonymous sperm donors or to store their own sperm without prejudice. (2008)

3.             ENCOURAGES groups within AMSA to educate the membership about the discrepancies between current public health standards and the current screening practice that prohibits men who have sex with men from donating blood or sperm or storing sperm at their own expense. (2006)

4.             RECOGNIZES that the current policy, regulations and guidelines against blood and sperm donation by men who have sex with men is an instance of institutionalized discrimination that is contrary to current public health standards. (2006)