Message from Dr. Socorro Gross-Galiano on World Health Day 2011

Donation

• Presente. Donante de sangre voluntario, 2009 (only in Spanish)
• Eligibility for Blood Donation: Recommendations for Education and Selection of Prospective Blood Donors, 2009
• Eligibilite pour le don du sange: Recommandations pour l’Education et la Sélection des Candidats, 2009 (in French)
• Elegibilidades para doaçao de sangre: Recomendações para Educação e Seleção de Doadores de Sangue Potenciais, 2009 (in Portuguese)
• Dadores de Vida. Guía Metodológica para Educadores Comunitarios, 2006 (only in Spanish)
• Manual Hagamos la diferencia, 2005 (only in Spanish)
• Methodological guidelines for socio-cultural studies on issues related to blood donation, 2005
• Fuente de Ideas. Hagamos la diferencia. Reclutamiento de donantes de sangre voluntarios no remunera, 2005 (only in Spanish)

Hemovigilance

• A guide to establishing a national haemovigilance system
• National Haemovigilance System-Aide Mémoire for Ministries of Health, 2015
• Manual Iberoamericano de Hemovigilancia, 2015 (only in Spanish)

Organization

• Recommendations for Estimating the Need for Blood and Blood Components, 2010
• Recommandations Pour L'Estimation Des Besoins En Sang Et Ses Composants, 2010 (in French)
• Recomendações para a Estimativa da Necessidade de Sangue e de Hemocomponentes, 2010 (in Portuguese)
• Recommendations to ensure a safe, sufficient blood supply during campaigns to administer the measles/rubella (MR) double viral vaccine to adults, 2009
• Guía para la estimación de costos de la regionalización de los bancos de sangre, 2005 (only in Spanish)
• Basic components of a national blood system, 2003
• The Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations, 2001

Policy and Regulation

• Caribbean Regional Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, 2012
• Estándares de trabajo para servicios de sangre, 2006 (only in Spanish)
• Comparativo de legislaciones sobre sangre segura, 2005 (only in Spanish)

Quality

• Curso de Gestión de Calidad para Servicios de Sangre, 2002 (only in Spanish)
• Microplacas: Su Aplicación en Inmunohematología Básica de Banco de Sangre, 1998 (only in Spanish)

Rational use of medicines

• Provisional recommendations for blood services in light of the Zika virus epidemic, 2016
• Recomendaciones para el diseño de un programa de desarrollo de guías de práctica clínica: uso de la sangre y sus componentes, 2006 (only in Spanish)
• The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine Obstetrics Paediatrics Surgery & Anaesthesia Trauma & Burns, 2001
• O Uso clínico do Sangue na Medicina Obstetrícia, Pediatria e Neonatologia, Cirugia e Anestesia, Traumas e Queimaduras (in Portuguese)
• L’utilisation clinique du sang en Médecine interne Obstétrique Pédiatrie Chirurgie et anesthésie Traumatologie et soins aux brûlés (in French)

Supply of Blood Transfusion

• Supply of blood for transfusion in Latin American and Caribbean Countries, 2014 and 2015. [2017]
• Supply of Blood for Transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American Countries 2012 and 2013
• Supply of Blood for Transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American Countries 2010 and 2011.
• Supply of Blood for Transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American Countries 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
• Supply of Blood for Transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American Countries in 2006-2007
• Medicina transfusional en los países del Caribe y Latinoamérica, 2000 -2003 (only in Spanish)
• Annex. Supply of blood for transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American countries in 2005.
• Supply of blood for transfusion in the Caribbean and Latin American countries in 2005
• Final Report. Retreat on blood safety. Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. 18-20 October, 1999 (solo en inglés)