Blood Banking
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“Safe blood saves lives, but for too many people around the world blood transfusion is not available or not safe.”
WHO/Europe Fact Sheet on Blood Safety (June 2005)
Under optimum circumstances, healthy blood donors have the potential to save the lives of up to three people with a single donation. A long-standing tradition in the former Soviet Union was to ensure an adequate supply of blood and blood products by paying donors—a practice that attracted individuals from high-risk groups who earned their living by selling their blood, very often transmitting life-threatening infections such as HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis, or other blood-borne diseases to already severely sick patients.
Projects
AIHA's efforts to improve the availability of safe blood and blood products through specific programmatic activities include:
Tbilisi (Georgia)/San Francisco (California) Partnership
Due to the limited availability of reliable and safe blood in Georgia, AIHA has been collaborating with Global Healing, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, to create the first voluntary blood bank in the former Soviet Republic. The facility opened its doors in September 2000 at Jo Ann Medical Center (JAMC) in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. In 2004, JAMC was awarded the safe blood component of a two-stage open tender on “Strengthening Existing National Response for Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Georgia in 2003-2007” through the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Read more...
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