by fiods-ifbdo | Lug 20, 2014 | News |
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by fiods-ifbdo | Lug 15, 2014 | News |
The 2012 was a very important year for FIODS, full of proposals and initiatives, that let us achieve important goals. We reached 72 affiliated countries, we collected 21 million blood bags and we are approximately 15 million of associates now. We achieved these objectives because our policies were clear, concrete and attractive. We were able to propose ideas and solutions, stimulate debates, obtain consensuses and participations. Our mission is to promote Blood Donation Culture, in a broad sense meaning, all over the world. If we could project a new world, its foundations would exactly be values such as responsibility, solidarity, consciousness, information and participation. The more we will answer to people needs and the more we will understand that in the world there is still a huge need of blood and a boundless need of solidarity, the more our actions will be more and more effective and precious. Today 92 million blood bags are collected and this is not enough, millions of people die because of lack of blood. In Latin America, in 2011, 9.3 million units of blood were collected, 62% of which was from occasional or familiar donors. In Africa the annual estimated needs is 9 million blood units and the countries of this region are able to collect only half of it. In Asia there is the same criticality, but the incredible thing is that 94% of blood donations are from men, while the remaining are from women. This is, most of all, due to the low levels of hemoglobin. IFBDO task is very hard and it shows many difficulties, that we have to overcome with...
