Since the rise of America's AIDS epidemic in the 80s, the FDA has banned men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood. Over the years, only slight changes have been made to the rules.
Amid the worst blood shortage crisis in our history the FDA is now funding research to consider changes to who is allowed to donate -- but they can't find enough people to participate in the study.
This is the first episode in the series, Blood Bias.
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