Pharmaceutical companies have launched a legal fight against the U.S. government over a policy banning certain visa holders from selling blood plasma, a crucial tool used to treat numerous autoimmune and neurological diseases.
Mexican nationals who enter the United States on visitor visas donate up to 10% of plasma collected in the U.S., and the companies that collect the plasma are fighting the Customs and Border Protection policy that would curtail the paid donations for B-1 and B-2 visitor visa holders in court.
“The Plasma Ban also needlessly damages public health by making fewer plasma-derived therapies available to patients at the most inopportune time — when the critical need for such therapies continues to grow rapidly and U.S. plasma therapeutic suppliers work to rebound from the decrease in plasma donation throughout the U.S. over the last two years due to the pandemic,” the plaintiffs argued.
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