Abstract
In the early 1970s the World Health Organization became increasingly concerned at the long-term prospects for the safety and availability of blood and blood products. So much so that it subsequently called for countries to develop national blood transfusion services which were committed to self-sufficiency and acquired their blood from unpaid donors. Few countries took a serious interest in these recommendations, although significant progress was made in some countries to support the concept of the unpaid donor.
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EEC Directive 89/381/EEC.
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Cash, J.D. (1992). Transfusion Medicine Today and Tomorrow: The Facts and the Fictions. In: Smit Sibinga, C.T., Das, P.C., Cash, J.D. (eds) Transfusion Medicine: Fact and Fiction. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3504-1_23
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