A Gift of Blood: Opinions and Experience of Voluntary Blood Donors on Repeat Blood Donation

Donating blood is an essential practice that can help save lives. Effective strategies are necessary to attract and keep donors meet the demand for safe blood. To evaluate experience of voluntary in Zanzibar, a survey was conducted, purposive sampling used select participants who had donated multiple times. The study involved interviewing 15 repeat donors, data collected analyzed thematically. Two main themes emerged from analysis: motivators barriers. Despite few negative effects, most positive experiences with donation, only experienced physical reactions during or after process. concludes Zanzibar generally have good towards although community participation, education, sensitization needed recruit maintain more donors.