Blood safety
This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
Blood safety ensures that all individuals have access to blood and blood products that are as safe as possible, available at reasonable cost, adequate to meet the needs of all patients, transfused only when necessary and provided as part of a sustainable blood programme within the existing health care system. (WHO Department of Blood Safety and Clinical Technology).
RELATED SITES
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Blood transfusion safety
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Blood safety (African Region)
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Blood safety and clinical technology (South-East Asia Region)
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Biologicals
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Blood services (Region of the Americas - PAHO)
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Blood services (European Region)
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Blood products and related biologicals
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Blood safety (Western Pacific Region)
FACT SHEETS
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Blood safety and donation: a global view
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications: blood transfusion safety
RELATED LINKS
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WHO recommendations on SARS and blood safety
FEATURES
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10 facts about blood transfusion
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Q&A: Why should I donate blood?
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