2014 THEME: SAFE BLOOD FOR SAVING MOTHERS
World
Blood Donor Day is celebrated every 14th of June and it encourages people to
give blood and save lives without asking for anything in return. Blood donor
day serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood. Transfusion of blood
and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. It can help
patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer and with higher
quality of life, and supports complex medical and surgical procedures.
Transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. It can help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer and with higher quality of life, and supports complex medical and surgical procedures. It also has an essential, life-saving role in maternal and perinatal care. Access to safe and sufficient blood and blood products can help reduce rates of death and disability due to severe bleeding during delivery and after childbirth.
In many countries, there is not an adequate supply of safe blood, and blood services face the challenge of making sufficient blood available, while also ensuring its quality and safety. An adequate supply can only be assured through regular donations by voluntary unpaid blood donors. WHO’s goal is for all countries to obtain all their blood supplies from voluntary unpaid donors by 2020. In 2014, 60 countries have their national blood supplies based on 99-100% voluntary unpaid blood donations, with 73 countries still largely dependent on family donors and paid donors.
Transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. It can help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer and with higher quality of life, and supports complex medical and surgical procedures. It also has an essential, life-saving role in maternal and perinatal care. Access to safe and sufficient blood and blood products can help reduce rates of death and disability due to severe bleeding during delivery and after childbirth.
In many countries, there is not an adequate supply of safe blood, and blood services face the challenge of making sufficient blood available, while also ensuring its quality and safety. An adequate supply can only be assured through regular donations by voluntary unpaid blood donors. WHO’s goal is for all countries to obtain all their blood supplies from voluntary unpaid donors by 2020. In 2014, 60 countries have their national blood supplies based on 99-100% voluntary unpaid blood donations, with 73 countries still largely dependent on family donors and paid donors.
Every
year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
The event raises awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to
thank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. Every
day, about 800 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications.
Almost all of these deaths occur in developing countries. More than half of
them occur in sub-Saharan Africa and almost one third in South Asia. The risk
of maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years of age.
Severe bleeding during delivery and after childbirth is a major cause of
mortality, morbidity and long-term disability. However, access to safe and
sufficient blood and blood products and the rational and safe use of blood
transfusion still remain major challenges in many countries around the world.
The objectives of this year’s global campaign:
1) Ministries of health, particularly in countries with high rates of maternal mortality, to take concrete steps towards ensuring that health facilities in their countries improve access to safe blood and blood products from volunteer donors for women giving birth.
2) National blood services in countries with high rates of maternal mortality to focus on safe blood for mothers in their activities and products for the 2014 campaign.
3) Maternal health programmes and partnerships engage in the 2014 campaign.
4) WHO and partners throughout the world highlight how safe blood from voluntary donors can save women’s lives everywhere.
Good Day.
2014: Safe blood for saving mothers
The focus of the WBDD 2014 campaign, marked on 14 June 2014, is “Safe blood for saving mothers”. The goal of the campaign is to increase awareness about why timely access to safe blood and blood products is essential for all countries as part of a comprehensive approach to prevent maternal deaths.
1) Ministries of health, particularly in countries with high rates of maternal mortality, to take concrete steps towards ensuring that health facilities in their countries improve access to safe blood and blood products from volunteer donors for women giving birth.
2) National blood services in countries with high rates of maternal mortality to focus on safe blood for mothers in their activities and products for the 2014 campaign.
3) Maternal health programmes and partnerships engage in the 2014 campaign.
4) WHO and partners throughout the world highlight how safe blood from voluntary donors can save women’s lives everywhere.
Good Day.
2014: Safe blood for saving mothers
The focus of the WBDD 2014 campaign, marked on 14 June 2014, is “Safe blood for saving mothers”. The goal of the campaign is to increase awareness about why timely access to safe blood and blood products is essential for all countries as part of a comprehensive approach to prevent maternal deaths.
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services countries activities who wealth safe blood saving mother healthWORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY 14 JUNE 2014 THEME SAFE BLOOD FOR SAVING MOTHERS WBDD 2014 campaign
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