Health minister to remove blood donation restrictions from gay men

 https://www.jpost.com/health-science/health-minister-to-remove-blood-donation-restrictions-from-homosexual-men-671010

While gay men usually see higher rates of infection from HIV and AIDS due to HIV’s higher transmission rates through anal sex – a statistic which initially led the ban to go into effect in the early 1980s – their rates have been dropping consistently over recent years.

This drop in cases is coupled with a drop in the disease’s severity. Due to improving medications, HIV was redefined in 2015 from being considered a fatal illness to being considered a treatable, chronic disease.