Blood safety

It is well recognized that safety, adequacy, and quality of blood are the essential requisites that any blood transfusion service will have to ensure to derive the maximum benefit from donated blood. WHO has accorded the utmost priority to ensure the safety of blood. Blood safety was also the theme of World Health Day 2000 with a thought-provoking slogan, “Safe blood starts with me: blood saves lives.”

Blood Transfusion Services in the
Western Pacific Region

Blood transfusion services in the Western Pacific Region range from efficient, well-organized services based on voluntary non-remunerated blood donors in developed countries to those in the least developed countries that lack resources, function poorly, have inadequate safety and quality monitoring, and are heavily dependent on paid donors.

Source: http://www.who.int/bloodsafety/en/

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Fact sheets

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News and press releases

16 September 2004
WHO: protect the public from contaminated blood
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05 April 2000
Safe Blood Starts with Me - Blood Saves Lives
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Relevant publications and documents

Management of National Blood Programmes
A series of three workshops on “Management of National Blood Programmes” was organized jointly by the Blood Services Group (BSG) of the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore and the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO), Manila and Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO), New Delhi, supported by the Singapore Government through its Singapore Cooperation Programme.

Biregional Workshop on Blood Donor Management
14-16 June 2010

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