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Self-sufficiency in blood and blood products based on voluntary non-remunerated blood and plasma donations

The issue of self-sufficiency in blood and blood products generated much interest and discussion among the Member States during the 126th WHO Executive Board (resolution EB126.R14) and the 63rd World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA 63.12 on the 'Availability, safety and quality of blood products'. WHA 63.12 recognizes that achieving self-sufficiency based on voluntary non-remunerated blood donation (VNRBD), and the security of that supply are important national goals to prevent blood shortages and meet the transfusion requirements of the patient population, and thereby, urges the WHO Member States "to take all the necessary steps to establish, implement and support nationally-coordinated, efficiently managed and sustainable blood and plasma programmes according to availability of resources, with the aim of achieving self-sufficiency".

Selected published reports, articles and relevant information

WHA63.12. Availability, safety and quality of blood products: resolution

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WHA58.13. Blood safety: proposal to establish World Blood Donor Day. 16-25 May 2005

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  pdf, 218kb
• English
  pdf, 96kb
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  pdf, 95kb
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  pdf, 125kb
• Spanish
  pdf, 15kb

• WHA28.72 - Utilization and supply of human blood and blood products
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• Countries that report having achieved 100% voluntary non-remunerated blood donation
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• Global consultation on 100% voluntary non-remunerated blood donation of blood and blood components

• How to ensure self-sufficiency of stable plasma derivatives in Belgium
  Léonard C, Hanquet G, Senn A, Huybrechts M.
  Study nr: 2008-30
  Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre. KCE reports 120
• Swedish blood plasma self-sufficiency in a European context
  Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
  Sweden, Ministry publications series 1999:77
• Self-sufficiency in blood products in England and Wales: a chronology from 1973 to 1991
  Department of Health
  United Kingdom, 27 February 2006
• DIRECTIVE 2002/98/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 January 2003
  Setting standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components and amending Directive 2001/83/EC
  Official Journal of the European Union, 2003, L 33/30–40
• Review of Australia’s plasma fractionation arrangements
  Commonwealth of Australia, 2006
• Position paper on voluntary non-remunerated donations
  European Blood Alliance, 2009
• Plasma procurement and self-sufficiency
  Hossenlopp C, Velati C, Rouger P.
  Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine, 2004, 6(1):8-11
• Swedish transfusion medicine in a ten-year perspective- a brief review
  Hogman CF.
  Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 1988, 93:189–192
• Achieving self sufficiency in blood across Europe
  Leikola J.
  British Medical Journal, 1998, 316:489–90
• Plasma fractionation in Korea: working towards self-sufficiency
  Quehn Park, Moon Jung Kim, Jaeseung Lee, Sunmi Shin.
  Korean Journal of Hematology, 2010, 45:3-5
• National blood management system and the direction of government policy in Korea
  Ji Eun Cho.
  Korean Journal of Hematology, 2010, 45:81-3