On 14 June 2023, International Blood Donor Day will once more be celebrated all through the sector. Formally designated as an annual match through the International Well being Meeting in 2005, the Day supplies a unique alternative to have a good time and thank voluntary blood donors around the globe for his or her present of blood and has transform a big focal point for motion against reaching common get right of entry to to secure blood transfusion.
Each unmarried donation is a treasured lifesaving present and repeat donation is the important thing to construction a secure and sustainable blood provide.
In many nations, blood services and products face the problem of creating enough blood to be had, whilst additionally making sure its high quality and protection. Lack get right of entry to to secure blood and blood merchandise – particularly in low- and middle-income international locations, affects on all sufferers, together with the ones requiring common transfusion. Considered one of WHO methods is to lend a hand low- and middle-income international locations in making improvements to the supply and high quality of human plasma, together with optimising the utilisation of the plasma recovered from entire blood donations, and lengthening sufferers’ get right of entry to to the life-saving plasma protein remedies.
Focal point of this yr’s marketing campaign
The slogan for 2023 International Blood Donor Day marketing campaign is “Give blood, give plasma, percentage existence, percentage steadily.” It makes a speciality of sufferers requiring life-long transfusion give a boost to and underlines the function each and every unmarried particular person can play, through giving the precious present of blood or plasma. It additionally highlights the significance of giving blood or plasma often to create a secure and sustainable provide of blood and blood merchandise that may be at all times to be had, in all places the sector, so that each one sufferers in want can obtain well timed remedy.
The goals are to:
- have a good time and thank people who donate blood and inspire extra other folks to transform new donors;
- inspire other folks in excellent well being to donate blood often, as steadily as is secure and imaginable, to grow to be the standard of existence for transfusion dependent sufferers and assist to construct a protected blood provide in all international locations on the earth;
- spotlight the important roles of voluntary non-remunerated common blood and plasma donations achieve common get right of entry to to secure blood merchandise for all populations; and
- mobilize give a boost to at nationwide, regional and world ranges amongst governments and building companions to put money into, reinforce and maintain nationwide blood programmes.
Actions that may assist advertise the slogan of this yr’s International Blood Donor Day would possibly come with donor appreciation ceremonies, social networking campaigns, particular media announces, social media posts that includes person blood donors with the slogan, conferences and workshops, musical and creative occasions to thank blood donors, and coloring the enduring monuments pink or yellow. Nations are inspired to disseminate to quite a lot of media retailers tales of other folks, particularly transfusion-dependent sufferers, whose lives had been stored thru blood or plasma donation as some way of motivating blood and plasma donation.
Host nation for International Blood Donor Day 2023
The host nation for the worldwide match of International Blood Donor Day 2023 is Algeria thru its Nationwide Blood Transfusion Carrier.
