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Friday 31 January 2014 | Issue 1211 | starobserver.com.au
PRIDE MARCH VIC PAGE 18
QUEER SCREEN OP-EDS PAGE 12
JAMIE JACKSON UPDATE PAGE 05
DON BAXTER PAGE 03
Blood
donation
banstays
National
Benjamin...
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Australia's most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 31 January 2014 | Issue 1211 | starobserver.com.au
PRIDE MARCH VIC PAGE 18
QUEER SCREEN OP-EDS PAGE 12
JAMIE JACKSON UPDATE PAGE 05
DON BAXTER PAGE 03
Blood
donation
banstays
National
Benjamin Riley
A REJECTION of moves to have the waiting period for
blood donations from men who have sex with men reduced to six months has been met with criticism from
theLGBTIcommunity.
Last month the Therapeutic Goods Administration
(TGA), Australia’s regulatory agency for medical drugs
and devices, blocked a recommendation from the AustralianRedCrossBloodServicetoreducethewaitingperiod for blood donations from sexually-active men who
havesexwithmen(MSM)from12tosixmonths.
But when contacted by the Star Observer on Tuesday
this week, Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
executive officer Rob Lake - who also sits on the Red
Cross’ Blood Donor Referral Advisory Panel - expressed
surpriseatnotbeinginformedoftheTGA’sdecision.
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