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Blood shortages are particularly acute in developing countries
New Delhi: World Blood Donor Day is celebrated each year on June 14. The day is observed to raise global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion. It also stresses on the important role that voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to national health systems.
History of World Blood Donor Day
World Blood Donor Day was first commemorated in 2004 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). June 14 was selected to mark the day as it is on this day that Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner was born in 1868. Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the ABO blood group system.
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An ethnically diverse registry is key to helping those in need of a life-saving stem cell transplant
Stem cell transplants are effective in curing over 70 diseases including leukaemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anaemia. While 77 000 stem cell donors are registered in South Africa, efforts are underway to create awareness to educate the South African public to register to become donors. Every year on 14 February, South Africa commemorates National Donor Day.
National Donor Day is a global initiative to create awareness on all types of donations and provides an opportunity to focus on those who are donors and have given the gift of life.
Sunflower Fund hopes for more ethnically diverse stem-cell donors
By Shakirah Thebus
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Cape Town - The Sunflower Fund partnered by international non-profit DKMS (We Delete Blood Cancer), aims to register 15Â 000 new donors this year, in a bid to increase and create a more ethnically diverse donor registry and inevitably save more lives.
The Sunflower Fund partnered by DKMS is appealing to South Africans between the ages of 18 to 55 years and in general good health to register to become a stem-cell donor.
Sunday was not just a day entirely dedicated to love, but was also National Donor Day.
National Donor Day covers all types of donations and is part of a larger global campaign to raise awareness on the benefits of becoming a donor, and to focus on those who are changing and saving lives through donorship.