Blood donation: a vital act

Every year, nearly 112.5 million units of blood are collected worldwide, almost half of which are in high-income countries.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Every year, around 112.5 million units of blood are collected worldwide.

Almost 47% of these donations are collected in high income countries.

However, the demand for blood donations is high throughout the world: road accident victims, patients suffering from serious diseases, such as leukemia, thalassemia as well as sickle cell disease, are all patients requiring a blood transfusion.

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You should know that an accident victim may need the blood of 30 donors.

So how do you donate blood?

Who can give it?

  • Professor Pirenne France,

    Medical Director of

    the French Blood

    of

    the Henri Mondor Hospital

    .

    Professor of Hematology and Transfusion at

    the University of Paris Est Créteil

    , medical director of

    EFS Île-de-France

    and head of the INSERM U955 team, team 2, in Créteil.

  • Dr Yacouba Nebie, 

    Hemobiologist specializing in Transfusion Medicine at

    the National Blood Transfusion Center of Ouagadougou

    in Burkina Faso.

    Teacher Researcher at Joseph KI-ZERBO University in Ouagadougou.

At the end of the program, we talk about the risks of developing skin cancer in people with albinism and the free provision by the Pierre Fabre Foundation of a sunscreen to allow as many of these people as possible. to benefit from this preventive tool.

Interview with

Lala Aïcha Diakite

, president of the

Association Solidarité pour l'Insertion des Albinos

(SIAM) in Bamako, Mali.

At the end of the program

, we find the nutrition column of

Stéphane Besançon

, nutritionist and director of

the NGO Santé Diabète

in Bamako, Mali. 

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