Background: The aim of this study was to present the basic aspects activity Polish transfusion blood service (hereinafter referred as Centers) in 2021, taking into account conditions related ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods: Analysis data forwarded Institute by Blood Transfusion Centers (Centers). Results: In there were 23 136 local collection sites opeerating Poland. components...

OBJECTIVES This article has two objectives: (1) to present for countries and territories of the Region of the Americas data on the number of blood donations, proportion of voluntary blood donors versus remunerated blood donors, coverage of screening for infectious agents, and separation of donated blood into its components and (2) to explore the relationships of those characteristics with econo...

INTRODUCTION For many donor-conceiving heterosexual parents, the process of deciding whether and what to tell children about their genetic origin is challenging. We hypothesized that incomplete couple agreement about disclosure could be associated with parenting stress. The aim of the study was to investigate: (1) parenting stress levels among heterosexual parents of young children following ga...

Contemporary public policy, supported by international arbitrators of blood policy such as the World Health Organization and the International Federation of the Red Cross, asserts that the safest blood is that donated by voluntary, non-remunerated donors from low-risk groups of the population. These policies promote anonymous donation and discourage kin-based or replacement donation. However, t...

Blood banks all over the world attempt to cover the demand for blood by donations from voluntary non-remunerated donors. The discussion regarding the acceptability of blood donations by haemochromatosis patients focuses on the question of whether health benefits violate the rule of the altruistic donor. Utilitarian and deontological arguments for and against the policy of accepting blood donors...

The following text should be added: Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: E.R. Ranschaert: Financial activities related to this article: none to disclose. Financial activities not related to this article: founder and co-owner of Eurad Consult (until 2008); advisory function at Unilabs (until 2010). Other relationships: member of the advisory board of XS2RA (non-remunerated). F. H. Barneveld Bink...

Unlike their Western counterparts, some of the Eastern/Southern Mediterranean countries lack centralized coordinated blood transfusion services leading to an unequal blood safety level. This was recently highlighted by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) regional committee report in which WHO urges these countries to establish and implement a national blood system with well-coordinated blo...

BACKGROUND Voluntary non-remunerated blood donors are considered the best among all different types of blood donors for improving the supply of safe blood. Though safe blood transfusion services have improved in Pakistan, but efforts are still required to optimize blood banks and improve recruitment of voluntary donors, such as senior school/college going students as a source of safe blood. Thi...

The exclusion of high risk-donors by selection is one of the most crucial steps to improve the overall safety of the blood supply and the donor eligibility. This is currently achieved through the donor questionnaire, medical assessment, complete blood count, and the serological testing for the blood borne pathogens, namely: syphilis, hepatitis B & C, and HIV infection. This study was undertaken...

background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...