Ban on gay men giving blood to be lifted | Politics | guardian.co.uk
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Gay men will be able to give blood when government restrictions are lifted later this year, the Department of Health has said.
A lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have had sex with another man was put in place in the UK in the 1980s as a response to the spread of Aids and HIV.