Israel’s Health Ministry has removed its decades-old restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men calling the prior policy discriminatory and “denigrating.” Previously, male blood donors were asked if they’d had same-sex relations in the past 12 months. A ‘yes’ answer was an immediate disqualification from donating. The new language now asks men seeking to donate blood if they have had “high risk sexual relations with a new partner or partners” in the past three months. The wording is also now gender neutral. https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1428353557380669440 From AP News:
Nitzan Horowitz, Israel’s health minister, who himself is openly gay, wrote in a Facebook post that the Health Ministry had “removed the denigrating and irrelevant questions” in questionnaires for blood donors, and that everyone would be treated equally regardless of sexual orientation.
“There’s no difference between one blood and the other,” he said. “Discrimination against gays in donating blood is over.”
Read the full article here. Gal Wagner Kolasko, head of the Israeli LGBT Medical Associations, took to Twitter to thank Horowitz for the “historical correction.” 
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