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I dunno who “we” is but just in case others missed the news, men who have sex with men in the United States no longer need to abstain from sex at all in order to donate blood, provided they’re in a monogamous relationship and meet other risk assessments. This has been true since roughly May 2023 as far as I’m aware.

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Glad to hear there's some very recent and small advancement!

PS. By 'we' I meant our current society, as opposed to 'them', meaning Cuban regime 80 years ago.

Do heterossexual men need to be monogamous too?

The reason public health refers to “men who have sex with men” or MSM is because it was discovered very early on in the HIV/AIDS crisis that the phrase “gay men” missed a significant portion of those at risk. Some straight men really do have sex with other men, sometimes.

Thanks for pointing that out, but this doesn't answer the spirit of my question: do men that do not have sex with men need to be monogamous to donate blood, or is that a requirement specific to MSM?

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