Recruitment of voluntary non-remunerated apheresis donors: the second five years' experience in Shenzhen.
The voluntary non-remunerated blood donation campaign in Shenzhen, China, was launched in 1993 and the smooth change from paid donors to unpaid took only a decade. In the first half the volunteer donation system and a sufficient blood supply was promoted and this paved the way for further development in the second half during which the non-remunerated donation system became substantial and integral due to recruitment for plateletapheresis and peripheral stem cells donation as well as whole blood donations. Ninety percent of the donors registered for plateletapheresis do donate and none of the twenty-three non-related donors with matched HLA genotypes broke their promise to donate their peripheral stem cells.
Kong
Ling-kui
LK
Department of Apheresis, Shenzhen Blood Center, Shenzhen 518035, PR China. klk001@msn.com
Zhu
Wei-gang
WG
Zhang
Hong
H
Yu
Zhi-rong
ZR
Zhou
Yi-yan
YY
Chen
Yue-kang
YK
Wang
Fei
F
Liu
Yi
Y
Sun
Feng-jie
FJ
D000533:Altruism; D001771:Blood Banks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D001781:Blood Component Removal / Q000379:methods*; D001782:Blood Donors; D002681:China; D005838:Genotype; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D010983:Plateletpheresis / Q000379:methods*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D013997:Time Factors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*; D014838:Volunteers