{"id":32510,"date":"2023-11-23T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/news\/don-de-sang-et-diabete-les-criteres-enfin-alleges\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:00:28","slug":"don-de-sang-et-diabete-les-criteres-enfin-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/news\/don-de-sang-et-diabete-les-criteres-enfin-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood donation and diabetes: criteria lightened at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In August 2021, Diab\u00e8te Qu\u00e9bec wrote a letter to H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec arguing the need to change blood donation regulations in Quebec to avoid discrimination against people living with diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2023, we were informed that H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec had made a submission to Health Canada to ease the blood donation criteria for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We are very pleased that the submission has been accepted, and that <strong>the reductions will come into effect on December 3, 2023<\/strong>. This responds to our demands on behalf of Quebecers living with diabetes. Here is the information we received:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparative table of blood donation criteria for people living with diabetes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023-1186x1536.png 1186w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/criteres-don-de-sang-3-dec-2023.png 1483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">External Ressources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hema-quebec.qc.ca\/assouplissements-creutzfeldt-jakob-diabete.fr.html?utm_platform_source=siteweb&amp;utm_source=carrousel&amp;utm_medium=banniere&amp;utm_campaign=criteres_de_selection_quebecprov_fr&amp;utm_term=firstparty_visiteurs&amp;utm_content=assouplissements_criteres\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hema-quebec.qc.ca\/assouplissements-creutzfeldt-jakob-diabete.fr.html?utm_platform_source=siteweb&amp;utm_source=carrousel&amp;utm_medium=banniere&amp;utm_campaign=criteres_de_selection_quebecprov_fr&amp;utm_term=firstparty_visiteurs&amp;utm_content=assouplissements_criteres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>November 8 letter from Nathalie Fagnan, President and CEO of H\u00e9ma-Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nouveaux crit\u00e8res en vigueur d\u00e8s le 3 d\u00e9cembre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"10457,11721,11822,32,7531,12529","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32512,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions\/32512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}