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Organization says evidence shows that the change would pose no safety risk to the blood supply

Organization plans to submit its recommendation to Health Canada within the next two weeks

Plans calls for changing focus on gender or sexuality, to higher-risk sexual behaviour instead

In most of Canada, men who have sex with men can donate only if they have abstained from sex

Canadian Blood Services is encouraging blood donations this Thanksgiving. As Canadians prepare…

Need for blood products tailed off dramatically 16 months ago as the pandemic took hold

Blood ban has been in existence in some form since 1992

About 400,000 of Canada’s 37 million population give blood on a regular basis

Researchers say antibodies indicate past infection

Blood drive challenge extended to April 30