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MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – It’s now easier for members of the LGBTQ+ community to donate blood.

Your ability to donate blood now focuses on your personal health history.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration updated its blood donation guidelines. Now, it goes off individual risk assessment rather than broad-based policies about gender or sex.

All donors who go to the U.P. Health System-Marquette Regional Blood Center will be asked the same set of questions regardless of gender. UPHS Regional Blood Center Manager, Dana Langsford, says this is done with one goal in mind.

“Increase the number of people that are eligible to donate while, at the same time, maintaining the safety, purity and potency of those same blood products,” said Langsford.

For a list of upcoming UPHS Regional Blood Center blood drives, go here.

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U.P. Health System-Marquette Regional Blood Center

FDA updates blood donation guidelines to try and increase number of donors