The first group reviewing the complete blood ban is hopeful that the final decision will be positive and will allow gays to donate blood with a 12-month deferral starting on January 1st.

Gay men will already be allowed to donate blood stem cells on Wednesday (June 22).

The longer-term goal is to drop the full ban completely and they think it could come around by 2018.

https://translate.google.com/transla...penden-duerfen



Switzerland will move from dark red (lifetime ban) on the map to red (12-month deferral ban) - pink means gays can donate blood without a problem:

Kings.

Good job, Switzerland.

Russia let the gays donate blood without a problem

Queen of the gays

What's the HIV/AIDS rate for gays in Switzerland?

that means you have to proof you hadn't had gay sex in the last 12 months?

lol good luck finding any gay here in zurich doing that

12 months are way too long i mean you can donate what every 3 or 4 months but csn't have sex for a year hm. step in the right direction tho.

from what i've read abt 8 million ppl live in switzerland and around 25k have aids. 75% of the overall number are men. 50% of the overall number are gay men so abt 12.5k

South Africa being ahead of the pack as usual.

Wait gays can donate blood in Russia?

Glad to see this, hopefully everyone will be in the pink soon!