RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The bill, which will now be sent to the Chamber of Deputies, includes a provision in the National Policy on Blood Components and Hemoderivatives, and establishes penalties for noncompliance.
Rapporteur Senator Humberto Costa highlighted the Federal Supreme Court (STF) legal backing, which in 2020 ruled that a 2016 Ministry of Health ordinance was unconstitutional. In the regulation, the Ministry considered men who had had sex with other men ineligible to donate blood for 12 months.
"In spite of a Supreme Court ruling, these spurious rules demand a firm position from the National Congress, and this firmness . . .
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