World Blood Donor Day
The World Health Organization (WHO) states on Tuesday Donor Day Blood.
The campaign aims to persuade people to donate blood and blood to meet demand throughout the world. Eight of nine people have no access to the blood it needs.
In wealthy countries, 10% of patients admitted to hospitals require blood donations. Four and a half million Americans die each year without receiving a transfusion of blood.
In Britain it is estimated that blood donors saved or improved the lives of a million people last year. Pro globally eight out of ten people have no access to the blood they need.
It is estimated that 60% of the blood supply worldwide is 18% of the global population, leaving 82% of the world's population without adequate reserves.
WHO as an example to follow the case of Malawi, where in just two years established a national voluntary blood donation.
Since then, one of the main hospitals in the country, situated in Blantyre, has seen has fallen by 60% mortality rate in children with anemia.
Maternal mortality has also been reduced by 50%.
So far, only forty countries have established a system of blood donation is entirely voluntary.
In Africa, made with blood transfusions contaminated with the HIV virus is the cause of 5% of the AIDS virus infections.
Although many countries are becoming more tests to determine if blood is not contaminated, in most developing countries are not testing donated blood for the presence of HIV or hepatitis B and C .
The organization has with the expectations that this year's campaign to increase the number of volunteers and regular donors.
