BACKGROUND Family/replacement donors still provide more than 45% of the blood collected in India. National AIDS Control Organization passed the guideline that family/friend donors should be considered as voluntary donors by the blood banks in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS We did a prospective analysis of Transfusion Transmitted Infections (TTI's) on our family donors for the years 2009 and 201...

This study tested the efficacy of interventions to recruit new plasma donors among whole blood donors. A sample of 924 donors was randomized to one of three conditions: control; information only by nurse; and information plus self-positive image message by nurse (SPI). Participants in the control condition only received a leaflet describing the plasma donation procedure. In the two experimental...

Two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from Shahid Hashemi Nejad Medical'Center in Iran. There were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. All patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of HLA haploidentical, 55 cases of HLA identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. One year patient and graft su...

BACKGROUND This study examined the motivations and experiences of anonymous donors who decide to make themselves open to contact with their donor offspring. METHODS Online questionnaires were completed by 63 sperm donors and 11 oocyte donors recruited via the Donor Sibling Registry (http://www.donorsiblingregistry.com/), a US-based international registry that facilitates contact between donor...

introduction and aims: tt virus (ttv) is a dna virus and is proposed as a potential cause of non-a to e hepatitis. we aimed to investigate, for the first time, the prevalence of ttv in iranian healthy blood donors. materials and methods: three hundred and twelve healthy iranian blood donors were randomly selected and tested for ttv dna by the seminested polymerase chain reaction method. serum a...

This study explores the motives of small Arab donors for provision aid. The existing literature financial assistance separates into two main categories, namely large donors, who are geopolitically motivated, and allocate aid according to recipients’ needs. Contrary this practice in literature, article argues that there is a third category, is, donors. category combines elements from other two. ...

Background and Objectives This paper sets out the case that fairness reciprocity are critical to donor recruitment warm glow is central retention. Materials Methods Narrative review. Results I show blood donors, compared non-donors, more sensitive violations of fairness. argue interventions tap into (e.g. voluntary reciprocal altruism) inequality in health between donors recipients likely be ef...