La decisión de ser donante es un acto altruista y compasivo.
Alentamos a todos a registrarse, incluidos los miembros de la comunidad LGBTQ +.
The eligibility question most frequently concerns sexually active gay men or others who may have been told they cannot donate blood products. When it comes to LGBTQ+ organ donation, the criteria used to determine which organs can be donated are based on a person’s medical condition at the time of death and are not the same criteria used to determine organ donation eligibility for LGBTQ+ individuals in blood donation. This distinction is important to understand, as it clarifies that organ donation eligibility is medically assessed and inclusive regardless of sexual orientation.
- Ojo y donación de tejidos (hueso, piel, válvulas cardíacas, etc.) están regulados por la Asociación de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA), al igual que la donación de sangre.
- los FDA currently has a male-to-male sex deferral policy, which could prevent a man who has been sexually active with a man in the past 12 months from donating his tissues or corneas. Gift of Life Michigan está obligado a seguir la política de la FDA al facilitar la donación de tejidos.
- However, the FDA does not regulate organ donation; it is regulated by the Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE. UU. (HHS). Therefore, men who have had sex with men are not banned from organ donation.
Likewise, a person’s sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression have no determination over whether they recibir an organ transplant. Anyone who needs one can receive a transplant if they are evaluated by a transplant center and determined to be fit to go through the transplant process and take good care of their lifesaving organ after their transplant.
Ley ESPERANZA
Acerca de la Ley de Equidad en las Políticas de los Órganos del VIH (HOPE)
los Ley de Equidad en las Políticas de los Órganos del VIH (HOPE), signed into law by President Obama in 2013, allows HIV-to-HIV organ transplantation. As of 2020, nearly 200 people with HIV have received lifesaving organ transplants from donors living with HIV thanks to the HOPE Act.
- La Ley HOPE no solo permite a los donantes fallecidos que habían estado viviendo con el VIH dar el regalo de la vida, ahora es posible que las personas que viven con el VIH donen su riñón o una parte de su hígado. como donante vivo a las personas en la lista nacional de espera de trasplantes que también viven con el VIH y esperan un trasplante de órganos que les salve la vida.
- Through medical advances in transplantation, more people are eligible to be organ donors today than ever before. Organ donors living with HIV or Hepatitis C or B can save the life of someone on the list who is also positive for the same treatable condition.
