Sweden to end ban on gay blood donors

AFP via the Swedish Wire:

"Men who have had sex with men will no longer be permanently barred from donating blood," the National Board of Health and Welfare said in a statement released on World AIDS Day.

Sexual orientation will no longer determine whether a person can give blood. Instead, people who have engaged in "sexually risky behaviour" can be barred as donors for one year.

The problem has always been that gay men are banned, even monogamous gay men, but promiscuous heterosexual men are considered a-okay.