Project Equality and the Mercer Law School/Macon Bar Association are sponsoring a CLE Seminar addressing the FDA's prohibition against blood donations by gay men.

The seminar will be held at Mercer Law School Tuesday, February 22 from 11:30 a.m to 1 p.m. We have requested approval of 1.1 CLE hours. The registration fee is $5.50

Professor Leslie Wolf of the Georgia State University College of Law will present an overview of the Food & Drug Administration's long-standing policy imposing a lifetime ban on blood donations from any male donor who had had sex with another man since 1977. Professor Wolf will discuss the development of the policy, as well as recent efforts to alter the policy in order to bring the categories of excluded donors in line with modern blood-testing science. The presentation will compare current U.S. policy to blood donation regulations in other countries, while also examining the 2010 vote by the federal government's Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability which concluded the existing policy is "suboptimal" and called for more research on alternative policies.