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The safety and availability of blood supplies have direct implications for public health, but the organization, capacity
and safety standards of national blood and health services vary widely across the Region.

Problems include:

1. outdated practices and inadequate risk assessment, which persist in some countries in the eastern part of
the Region owing to deficient information flows and lack of appropriate training and technologies;
2. restrictive funding, which hinders local priority setting, mostly with respect to maintaining a balance
between the acquisition of new technologies and the optimization of existing services; and
3. variable donation rates, availability of blood for clinical use and choice of transfusion therapies.
Blood safety