Commit to being a regular donor and give blood throughout the year.
Encourage your friends and family to become regular blood donors.
Volunteer with the blood service to reach out to members of your community, provide care to donors, and help manage blood donation sessions/drives.
Find out your blood type and register as a blood donor.
Participate in local World Blood Donor Day events.
Ministries of Health
Organize and participate in activities to celebrate World Blood Donor Day, promoting voluntary unpaid blood donation to the public, across government and to other sectors.
Acknowledge the important role of blood donors in achieving the goal of “safe blood for all” and universal health coverage.
Provide resources and infrastructure to facilitate voluntary blood donation.
Support the development of nationally coordinated blood transfusion services that provide equitable access to safe and quality assured blood transfusions for the whole population.
Put quality assurance systems in place for blood and blood products.
Download and distribute WHO’s World Blood Donor Day materials to health centres.
Speak to media about the importance of blood donation and the successes and challenges of your country in meeting national needs for blood.
National blood transfusion services
Disseminate information about the importance of giving blood.
Print out and distribute posters that you can download from the World Blood Donor Day campaign web site.
Organize a World Blood Donor Day celebration. This could include:
Inviting prominent politicians, celebrities and sporting heroes to participate;
Producing, displaying and disseminating promotional materials such as t-shirts, caps and stickers. (templates will be provided on the WHO World Blood Donor Day 2019 webpage);
holding open days at blood centres and inviting the public to learn about blood donation and transfusion; and
organizing blood drives, highlighting the need for year-round donation to maintain adequate blood supplies and achieve universal and timely access to safe blood transfusion.
Improve the infrastructure for blood donation and blood donor care.
Focus attention on donor health and care and provide quality service to blood donors.
