“Researchers of Canada: pay attention. Get on this. It’s a fully funded grant opportunity in a very interesting area of research.”
—Lorna Tessier, director of public relations for Canadian Blood Services, quoted in the Montreal Gazette, on a $500,000 grant available for research investigating whether it could be safe for gay men to donate blood. In Canada, as in the United States, all men who have had sex with another man since 1977 are barred for life from giving blood, due to concerns about spreading HIV. No one has yet applied for the grant, which was created 2 years ago.
