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WASHINGTON — A high-level federal public health committee Friday declined to recommend a change in restrictions on blood donations by gay men but proposed research that could eventually enable some barred men to give blood.
In voting 9-6 against making immediate changes, committee members cited what they said was a tiny but still unacceptable increased risk of contamination of the blood supply. The restriction on gay men was imposed in 1983 in response to the HIV-AIDS crisis.
