WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY-

2018

Dr. Farah Anjum Sonia

Department of Transfusion
Medicine
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
Medical University, Dhaka.
WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY-
2018

Dr. Farah Anjum Sonia

Department of Transfusion
Medicine,
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
Medical
University, Dhaka.
 WORLD BLOOD DONOR
DAY
Every year on 14 June, countries around the
world celebrate World Blood Donor Day
(WBDD).

The event , established in 2004, serves to

raise awareness of the need for safe blood and
blood products, and to thank blood donors for
their voluntary, unpaid life saving gifts of blood,
and to raise awareness of the need for regular
blood donations to ensure the quality, safety and
availability of blood and blood products for
patients in need.
 World Blood Donor Day
Observed by All member states of
the World Health
Organization

Date 14 June

Next time 14 June 2019

Frequency Annual
World Blood Donor Day is one of the eight
official global public health campaigns
marked by the World Health Organization
(WHO), along with-
World Health Day,
World Tuberculosis Day,
World Immunization Week,
World Malaria Day,
World No Tobacco Day,
World Hepatitis Day,
and World AIDS Day.
 Background
Transfusion of blood and blood products helps
and save millions of lives every year. It can help
patients suffering from life-threatening conditions
live longer and with high quality of life, and
supports complex medical and surgical procedures.
It also has an essential, life-saving role in maternal
and perinatal care and during the emergency
response to man-made and natural disasters.
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.
 Blood stocks are also essential in
natural and man-made disasters.
Some blood types are rare, so
promoting the need for rare donor
types is also part of this event.
 World Blood Donor Day is vital in
highlighting the need for blood
donors and regular donations.
 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.
 The 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 and paid donors.
 Poster of World Blood Donor Day-
2018.

Every few seconds,

Someone, somewhere
needs blood.
Be there
for someone else.
Give blood. Share life.

World Blood Donor

Day
14 June 2018
 History
 World Blood Donor Day is celebrated
every year by the people in many countries
around the world on 14 June. It is celebrated
every year on the day of birthday anniversary of
Karl Landsteiner on 14 June 1868.
 World Blood Donor Day celebration brings a
precious opportunity to all donors for celebrating
it on national and global level as well as to
commemorate the birthday anniversary of the
Karl Landsteiner ( a great scientist who won the
Nobel Prize for his great discovery of the ABO
blood group system)
 Focus of this year’s
campaign
 The theme of this year’s campaign is blood
donation as an action of solidarity.
 It highlights the fundamental human values of
altruism, respect, empathy and kindness which
underline and sustain voluntary unpaid blood
donation systems.
 We have adopted the slogan, “ Be there for
someone else. Give blood. Share life”, to draw
attention to the roles that voluntary donation
systems play in encouraging people to care for one
another and generate social ties and a united
community.
 The campaign aims to highlight
stories of people whose lives have
been saved through blood donation,
as a way of motivating regular blood
donors to continue giving blood, and
to motivate people in good health
who have never given blood to begin
doing so, particularly young people.
 Activitiesinclude commemorative
events, meetings, publication of
relevant stories, scientific
conferences, publication of articles in
national, regional and international
scientific journals, and other
activities that would help in
promoting the theme of this year’s
World Blood Donor Day.
 The objectives of this year’s
campaign
 to celebrate and thank individuals who
donate blood and to encourage those who
have not yet donated blood to start donating;

 to raise wider awareness that blood donation

is an altruistic action that benefits all of
society and that an adequate supply can only
be ensured through regular donations by
voluntary, unpaid blood donors;
 to highlight the need for committed, year-
round blood donation, in order to maintain
adequate supplies and achieve national
self-sufficiency of blood;
 to focus attention on blood donation as an
expression of community participation in
the health system, and the importance of
community participation in maintaining
sufficient, safe and sustainable blood
supplies;
 to promote the community values of
blood donation in enhancing community
solidarity and social cohesion and in
encouraging people to care for one
another and build a caring community;
 to promote international collaboration and
ensure worldwide dissemination of and
consensus on the principles of voluntary
non-remunerated donation, while
increasing blood safety and availability.
 Target audiences
 The primary target audiences for World
Blood Donor Day are donors who regularly
give blood and healthy people who are
eligible to give blood but are not yet
occasional or regular donors.
 Health officials at national level who are
responsible for setting national policy and
systems for blood donation and
transfusion are another important target
audience.
 International partners, national
blood transfusion services, Red Cross
societies, donor associations, patient
groups and professional societies
each have an important role to play,
both in supporting countries to
achieve self-sufficiency in this area
and in disseminating campaign
messages.
 International partners

 WHO has worked with a number of partners to

promote voluntary blood donation through the
celebration of World Blood Donor Day since the first
one in 2004.
 These include:
the International Federation of Blood Donor
Organizations,
the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies and
the International Society of Blood Transfusion.
 Campaign materials
 Filesfor the WBDD announcement,
 Web banners
 Posters and
 Other promotional materials such as

T-shirts, caps, mugs, pens and

stickers.
Host for World Blood Donor Day
2018 events

The host country for World Blood

Donor Day 2018 is Greece, through
the Hellenic National Blood Centre.
The global event is held in Athens on
14 June 2018.
 Key messages
A blood service that gives patients access
to safe blood and blood products in
sufficient quantity is a key component of
an effective health system.
 An adequate supply can only be ensured
through regular donations by voluntary,
unpaid blood donors.
 However, in many countries, blood
services face the challenge of making
sufficient blood available, while also
ensuring its quality and safety.
 Stilltoday, only 62 countries get close to 100% of
their national blood needs through voluntary
unpaid blood donations, with 40 countries still
dependent on family donors and even paid
donors.
 Thus World Blood Donor Day is vital to these
countries to raise awareness of blood donation
and thus increase supply in order to save as
many lives as possible.
 WHO has been providing support to Member
States to strengthen service delivery and safety
and improve access to safe blood and blood
products for patients in need.
 How to get involved
There are many ways to get involved in World
Blood Donor Day. Here are some ideas.
EVERYONE
 Participate in local events being organized to
celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
 Give blood at your nearest blood collection
centre.
MINISTRIES OF HEALTH
 Organize and participate in activities to celebrate
World Blood Donor Day and promote voluntary
unpaid blood donation to the public across
government and to the other sectors.
 Speak to the media about the importance of blood
donation and the successes and challenges of your
country in meeting national blood needs through
voluntary unpaid donations, in line with the theme of
this year’s World Blood Donor Day.
 Distribute posters and leaflets about blood donation to
health facilities.
International organization
 Provide updated information on blood transfusion and
blood safety to your members.
 Organize or participate in international, national and
local events.
 Urge media outlets to run special features and
editorials on blood donation.
NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICES
 Organize blood collection drives.
 Invite prominent politicians, celebrities and
sporting heroes to participate in World Blood
Donor Day celebrations.
 Disseminate information about the importance
of giving blood.
 Print out and distribute posters that you can
download from the World Blood Donor Day
campaign web site.
 Produce, display and disseminate promotional
materials such as T-shirts, caps and car stickers.
 Hold a donor recognition awards ceremony to
honor individuals and partner organizations who
have made significant contributions to blood
donation activities in your country.
 Hold open days at blood centres and invite the
general public to learn about blood donation and
blood transfusion.
JOURNALISTS
 Broadcast messages and write articles about
blood donation and the need for access to safe
blood and blood products.
 Write articles about how close your country is
to meeting national needs for blood through
voluntary unpaid donors.
 Interview staff from your Ministry of Health
and blood transfusion services.
 Write feature stories about people whose lives
have been saved as a result of blood donation,
or about people who are first-time donors, or
have donated blood a record number of times.
 Attend events organized to celebrate World
Blood Donor Day and write about them.
 Theme of World Blood
Donor Day
No Theme Year
.
1. “Blood, a Gift for Life” 2004
2. “Celebrating your gift of blood” 2005
3. “Commitment to Ensure 2006
Universal Access to Safe Blood”
4. “Safe Blood for Safe 2007
Motherhood”
5. "Giving blood regularly" 2008
No Theme Year
6. "Celebrating the gift of blood” 2009
7. “New blood for the world" 2010
8. "More blood. More life" 2011
9. “Every blood donor is a hero” 2012
10. "Give the gift of life: donate 2013
blood"
11. "Safe blood for saving mothers" 2014
12. "Thank you for saving my life" 2015
13. “Share life, give blood” 2016
14. “What can you do? Give blood. 2017
Give now. Give often.”
15. “Be there for someone else. Give 2018
blood. Share life.”
 Scenario of voluntary blood
donation
 Voluntary blood donation- Thailand - 100%,
Srilanka-100 & in India it is 65%.
 Achieving 100 % voluntary blood donation
by 2020 ? Possible for Bangladesh?
 In 60 countries, national blood supplies are
based on 100% or almost 100% (more than
99.9%) voluntary unpaid blood donations.
 40 countries collect less than 25% of their
blood supplies from voluntary unpaid blood
donors.
 Scenario of voluntary blood
donation- Cont.
 Donation rate in high-income
countries is 36.4 donations/1000
populations (range 13.3 – 64.6).
 In middle-income countries it is 11.6
(range 1.65 – 36.2) &
 In low-income countries, the range
is 2.8 (range 0.4 – 8.2) donations per
1000 population.
 Scenario of VBD in
Bangladesh
 In 2017 total 679,681 units of blood were
collected .
 There are mainly two types of blood donor
 Relative/Replacement Blood Donor-
478,475-(66%)
 Voluntary Blood Donor -200,906- (34%)
 Country’s blood need can be fulfilled if
only 2% of total eligible Population
donate blood once a year.
 Unfortunately in our country it is only
0.05%
 Campaign
video
Thank you all
Thank you all