Affiliate Societies

Instituto Pró-Hemo Saúde - IPH is a Civil Society Organization - CSO, according to the precepts of Law 13.019/2014, non-profit, philanthropic, founded in 2013 and whose primary objective is to support social actions in health, teaching and research, notably in the areas of hematology and hemotherapy, as well as providing support in the management of Brazilian blood centers.

Website:

prohemo.org.br

The Brazilian Association of Hematology, Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy (ABHH) was born from the merger of the Brazilian Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SBHH) with the Brazilian College of Hematology (CBH). Today, the institution has more than 4 thousand members, after being the first association of associative entities in the country.

Website:

abhh.org.br/

Twitter:

@AMMTAC1

Website:

www.ammtac.org

SOCHIHEM is a private non-profit corporation, founded in 1943, which voluntarily brings together professionals related to Hematology and Transfusion Medicine.

Our mission is defined around three objectives:

1. Promote scientific knowledge, stimulating the improvement of the associates of these specialties
2. Disseminate the problems that affect their professional practice and teaching, asking the competent authorities to develop policies, plans and programs aimed at improving health actions related to Hematology, Transfusion Medicine and the operation of the establishments that grant them
3. Promote the interrelationship between this Society and related national and international societies

Website:

www.sochihem.cl/site/

Vision Statements

• To inspire and promote safe transfusion practices
• To promote quality and provide guidance for hospital transfusion services
• To facilitate opportunities for education and research in transfusion medicine
• To cultivate regional, national, and international partnerships with key stakeholders

Twitter:

@CanSocTransMed

Website:

www.transfusion.ca

International Association of Asia-Pacific Blood Types and Genomics (IAABG) is a non-profit academic organization composed of voluntary institutions, enterprises, professionals, and scholars engaged in immunohematology, genomics, and molecular biology. The purpose of the Association is to unite those people from all over the world, to promote collaboration and innovation, to seek for the union of scientific research institutions and medical institutions, to promote blood transfusion and relevant industries towards precision in diagnosis, medication, treatment, and transfusion via industry-university-research cooperation mode and to serve the people for their health.

The Blood and Genomics journal (ISSN 2707-8957), a peer-reviewed open-access publication (the successor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Blood Types and Genes, by IAABG), intends to provide the researchers and clinicians globally to disseminate important information in aspects of experimental and clinical medicine of blood diseases and blood transfusion, and genomics research on blood, etc. Blood and Genomics is covered by major abstracting and indexing services and welcomes submissions from authors worldwide. Two issues annually feature editorial, comment, original research article, review, case report, technical report, letter to the editor, etc.

Website:

www.humanbloodgroup.com; http://www.blood-genomics.com;

Website:

www.hsa.gov.sg/

Macao Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS), a department under Health Bureau of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, is the only institution which supplies blood and its derivatives in the territory.

MBTS was set up in 1988 with the cost fully born by the Government. Blood supply is provided to all patients in need through the local hospitals. The quality of all blood products meet the standard set by Council of Europe, Select Committee of Experts on Quality Assurance in Blood Transfusion Services.

In July of 2003, BTC has been awarded ISO9001:2000 management system certificate.

Website:

www.ssm.gov.mo/cts/en/

Twitter:

@MsiaBTSociety

Website:

nctm.mohs.gov.mn/

The goals of the Taiwan Blood Service Foundation are to establish voluntary blood donation and supply system, to conduct donation and supply of blood, to upgrade the quality of blood for medical use, to protect the rights of patients and thus to improve the health of the population. Specifically, its functions are :

• to plan and implement blood donation services
• to establish blood donation system; and to conduct research and development of safe blood use
• to collect, laboratory-test, and supply blood for patients of public and private hospitals at all levels
• to conduct research on the health maintenance of blood donors
• to conduct matters concerning the use and safety management of unsuitabe blood for transfusion
• to plan and supply blood in large quantity at times of major disasters or war
• to achieve self-sufficiency of plasma products via contract fractionation
• other matters concerning blood donation and supply

Website:

www.blood.org.tw/Internet/english/

The Thai Red Cross Society is a national charitable organization undertaking humanitarian activities in keeping with the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This organization, dynamic and innovative, has a vision to move forward to excellence and strictly follow its core values/missions – grievance relief, quality of life promotion, disease treatment and suffering eradication. It serves public benefit and can be relied upon by the public.

Website:

english.redcross.or.th/

The Dubai Health Authority's Blood Donation Center (DBDC) was founded in 1986.

It is the main blood donation center in Dubai and it is committed to providing a safe and adequate supply of blood to all DHA hospitals & private hospitals in Dubai. The facility is accredited by the American Association of Blood Bank (AABB) since 2012.

DBDC collects around 50% of the total blood collected throughout the country and collects around 50,000 blood units  every year (according to 2016 statistics).

The Erbil Blood Bank, established in 2012, is a vital healthcare facility located in Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. It has been at the forefront of adopting information technology in its operations since 2022. 

The Erbil blood bank plays a critical role in the collection, testing, processing, and distribution of blood and blood products to meet the medical needs of the region. It operates with a team of 260 highly trained professionals, including hematologists, laboratory technicians, biologists, and support staff. Together, they ensure the entire process of blood donation is managed efficiently and in accordance with international guidelines and standards.

The Regional Blood Centre (RBC) Peshawar is located in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The Centre was established through a grant-in-aid by the German Government, on an area of 16,686 sq ft, and was officially inaugurated in November 2016. The Centre is located at about 40 kilometers from the Afghan border.

The Centre serves a total population of about 4.26 million of Peshawar city, which is 12% of the provincial population. In the year 2023, the RBC collected 62,185 blood donations and supplied approximately 180,000 units of blood and blood components to patients in need at hospitals and thalassaemia centres in Peshawar.

Essentially the role of the Regional Blood Centre is the mobilization of voluntary non-remunerated blood donors, collection of blood donations, its processing, TTI screening, component preparation and storage, distribution to attached hospital blood banks, haemovigilance, and research and development. All these activities are being carried out in line with the principles of Good Manufacturing and Laboratory Practices (GMP & GLP).

The RBC Peshawar has been promoting the culture of research and development in the transfusion sector. The RBC regularly publishes and presents research work in reputable international and national research journals. During the past eight years, the RBC published more than 90 research articles in international journals of repute with high impact factors. The RBC regularly published an Annual Report and a Quarterly Newsletter.

The Regional Blood Centre is the first of its kind in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, established in accordance with the international WHO standards and guidelines for blood transfusion services. Since its inception in 2016, this Centre has emerged as the best facility in the province to provide quality assured blood services that is comparable to such centres of the developed world. The RBC has become the hub of blood transfusion-related training activities in the province. The roadmap RBC has followed is very structured and systematic and had a huge impact on the overall quality of blood transfusion services in the provincial capital.

Bring Brilliant Minds of Transfusion (BBMT) Pakistan is a national blood transfusion society. The BBMT – Pakistan is a society of like-minded, dedicated transfusion professionals from across Pakistan. Established in 2021, BBMT aims to enhance and support the blood systems within Pakistan. Over the past four years, BBMT has organized annual conferences globally, with the most recent event held in Azerbaijan in November 2023. For 2024, BBMT is preparing to host an international conference in Malaysia in December. This upcoming event will draw transfusion experts from across the country and will also feature distinguished speakers from international organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), Malaysian Haematology Society, Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization (IBTO) Iran, and others. Building on this momentum, BBMT – Pakistan is poised to host the conference in Pakistan in the near future, with participation from the international transfusion fraternity.

The current Governing Council is set to serve until 2027. Dr. Dure Naz Jamal, Director of the Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority, has been appointed President. Dr. Jamal is known for her comprehensive regulatory framework for Sindh’s blood banks, which is serving as a model for other provinces. Dr. Usman Waheed, Associate Professor at Islamabad Medical and Dental College, has been named Secretary. With significant contributions to the national blood safety project and authoring blood safety legislation and national policies, Dr. Waheed is expected to steer the organization with expertise. The council includes Vice Presidents from each province: Dr. Tariq Masood (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Prof. Shabnam Bashir (Punjab), Prof. Hanif Mengal (Balochistan), Prof. Zahida Qasim (AJK/GB), and Prof. Muhammad Anwar (Sindh). Yaseen Khan, from Sundas Foundation is the Media Secretary, Dr. Akhlaaq Wazeer, Scientific Secretary, while Usman Rasheed Butt, a well-known lawyer, acts as the Legal Advisor. Executive members from all provinces are also part of the council, with plans to form an international Advisory Group.

BBMT operates as a non-governmental organization (NGO) under the VSWA Ordinance of 1961, Government of Pakistan. BBMT’s objectives include enhancing collaboration, education, training opportunities, supporting research, upholding high standards, and raising public awareness about blood transfusion medicine.

The Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine, the professional body representing medical scientists in Ireland. Medical science is a regulated and state registered profession
The Medical Scientists Registration Board at CORU established its register on 31 March 2019. As and from this date the Medical Scientists Registration Board is designated as the Competent Authority for the profession of Medical Scientist under the relevant legislation.

The vision of the Academy is “To support excellence in clinical science and laboratory medicine, and in doing so, enhance patient outcomes”.

Laboratory medicine is a clinical service and the clinical sciences that underpin laboratory medicine are; Cellular Pathology (Histopathology), Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics, POCT, Transfusion and Transplantation Science and Virology. Medical scientists are at the forefront not only in the provision of these services but in the management and delivery of the services.

Website:

acslm.ie/

The British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS) is the UK's only society dedicated to supporting Transfusion Professionals. The BBTS is a membership society, professional body and charity committed to the research, development and advanced study of blood transfusion. BBTS supports the professional community by providing career development and learning opportunities, ensuring the constant advancement of the profession.
Their membership base is made up of professionals from across the transfusion community at all levels of their career. From students hoping to enter the field, to those currently working in transfusion, right through to retired professionals hoping to keep up to date with latest developments.  

Website:

www.bbts.org.uk

Mission:
Develop and maintain clinical immunology as a specialist area that comprise:

• Blood banking and transfusion medicine
• Cell and tissue banking
• Transplantation immunology
• Diagnostic immunology

The intention is to strengthen these areas in relation to professionalism, clinic, research, innovation, and education

Aim:
Optimized and standardized treatment of patients and donors

• State-of-the-art production of SOHO and diagnostic analyses
• Avoid bottlenecks in diagnostic and treatment by supporting multidisciplinary cooperation and timely results of analyses
• Cooperation and hereby development of national guidelines, quality control and the most efficient use of available resources (experts and machines)

The German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) is a medical-scientific specialist society under German law in German-speaking countries for the promotion of research, teaching and patient care in transfusion medicine and its border areas. It was founded in 1954 as the German Society for Blood Transfusion. To clarify the necessity of blood group serological examinations before blood transfusions , it was incorporated into the German Society for Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology in 1973 renamed. In connection with the expansion of the specialist field to all allogeneic therapies, the name was changed to the German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology in 1986.

The DGTI has over 1000 members, mostly from German-speaking countries. In addition to an annual convention and other advancements in education, training and further education specialist transfusion medicine it maintains since 1990 the English-language scientific journal Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy (formerly Infusion Therapy and Transfusion Medicine ) and, since 2011, the German-language training journal Transfusion Medicine.

The Israeli Association of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine is a professional organization representing hematologists and transfusion medicine specialists in Israel. Its mission is to advance the field of hematology and Transfusion Medicine through education, research, and collaboration. The association provides a platform for members to share knowledge, network with colleagues, and stay updated on the latest developments in their field. It also plays a role in advocating for the needs of patients with hematological disorders and promoting blood donation

Website:

mstm.mk/

Website:

ttps://nvbtransfusie.nl/

The Spanish Society of Blood Transfusion, created in 1988, is the scientific association of professionals dedicated to blood donation and transfusion and among its objectives are to promote research, discussion, dissemination and application among its associates of scientific advances related with blood banks and with other areas in the broad field of biotechnology and organ and tissue transplants and promote their technical development, participate in the training of professionals and promote blood donation and the ethical aspects of transfusion.

SETS is a multidisciplinary association and this characteristic is reflected in its congresses, its working groups and even in the composition of its Board of Directors. Among its members many professionals from other countries, especially from Latin America and Portugal.

Twitter:

@SETS_es

Website:

sets.es/

Created in 1938, the French scientific society dedicated to blood transfusion became in 2022 the Société Francophone de Transfusion Sanguine (SFTS). On this occasion, it included in its ranks several experts from French-speaking countries.

The Société Francophone de Transfusion Sanguine (SFTS) has the following missions:

-  Contribute to advances in transfusion medicine,

-  Represent transfusion medicine to government, official bodies and the public,

-  Develop relations with transfusion medicine societies or associations in other countries, particularly French-speaking countries,

-  Contribute to the continuous professional development and the periodic certification of health professionals working in the field of transfusion medicine, within the framework of regulatory mechanisms.

The Swedish Society of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine is an medical-scientific specialist society under the Swedish Medical Association.

Our mission is to:

• Develop the field of clinical immunology and transfusion medicine through promoting research, clinical development and arranging lectures and forums for professional exchange. 
• Formulate goals for specialist education in the subject
• Promote education in the subject for all health care professionals
• Act as a vehicle for international collaboration in scientific and educational issues. 

Our members are primiarly physicians, scientists, nurses and biomedical technicians in Sweden who are active in the field of clinical immunology or transfuion medicine. www.kitm.se

Website:

www.kitm.se

The Norwegian Society for Immunology (NSI) was founded in 1982. At that time, the Norwegian Association for Immunology and Immunohematology, (Norwegian Association for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine NFIT from 1998) was already part of the Norwegian Medical Association with Ove J Mellbye as leader. Non-doctors could be associates but not full members of the association. However, Norwegian immunology research accelerated and both doctors and non-physicians became active colleagues. Non-physicians felt the growing need for a professional forum and Molecular Immunology was established as a subgroup of the Norwegian Biochemical Society. But more was to come.

Website:

norwegianimmunology.org/

The Welsh Blood Service (WBS) covers the whole of Wales. WBS collectS voluntary, non-remunerated blood donations from the general public. These donations are processed and tested before distribution to hospitals where they support patient care. WBS also holds blood-derived products (both NHS and Commercial) for purchase by our customer hospitals.

WBS provides an antenatal screening service to several hospitals and offer all customer hospitals specialist laboratory services to assist in the investigation of complex serological problems.

The Welsh Transplantation & Immunogenetics Laboratory, within the WBS, provides direct support to local providers of Renal and Stem Cell Transplant Services. It also operates a national panel of unrelated potential blood stem cell donors – the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry.

WBD contributes to the maintenance of quality standards in the transfusion and transplantation community by hosting the UK NEQAS external quality assessment scheme for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics and the Welsh Assessment of Serological Proficiency scheme (WASPS).

The WBS is a division of Velindre University NHS Trust. The Divisional Director of the WBS is supported by a Senior Management Team. The Velindre University NHS Trust Board agrees strategic objectives, and monitors operational and financial performance. There is Welsh Government oversight of the activities of the Velindre University NHS Trust.

WBS is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and effectiveness. Red Cell Immunohaematology and Automated Testing are both UKAS accredited Medical Laboratory No.9326 (ISO15189:2012) and we are an Investor in People.

The WBS is authorised and licenced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, who audit the organisation at defined periods.

Website:

www.welsh-blood.org.uk/

Website:

www.ztm.si/en/

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion comprises over 400 members from diverse scientific, medical and nursing backgrounds working within the area of blood transfusion and related fields.

The broad aims of the ANZSBT are:

• The advancement of knowledge in blood transfusion and transfusion medicine.
• The promotion of improved standards in the practice of blood transfusion
• The collaboration with international and other regional societies interested in blood
• The promotion of interest in research into blood transfusion and allied subjects
• The formulation of guidelines in key areas of transfusion practice

Twitter:

@ANZSBT

Website:

www.anzsbt.org.au/

The Philippine Blood Coordinating Council (PBCC) is a non-government organization founded in 1983 and has been tasked by the Department of Health (DOH) as the professional educational arm, in the implementation of the Republic Act 7719 or the National Blood Services Act of 1994.

Blood safety is their priority agenda and have continued to conduct seminars and training workshops across the Philippines for the past 39 years, where attendees are blood bank professionals, mobile blood donation team members, and other advocates of voluntary blood donation.

Website:

pbcc.ph/home/

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/company/philippine-blood-coordinating-council/about/