Regional
This Regional section features news from four regions: Western Pacific, Latin America, North America and Eastern Mediterranean. For this October 2025 issue, articles were invited by the Regional Directors: Maha Badawi (Eastern Med), Nelson Hirokazu Tsuno (Western Pacific) José Eduardo Levi (Latin America) and Katerina Pavenski.
Advancing Excellence in Therapeutic Apheresis: The King Abdulaziz Medical City Experience
Hamdan Almutairi and Khalid Batarfi (Eastern Med)
The role of Hong Kong nursing staff in blood collection services during disaster
CCY Chu, JSY Kong and CK Lee (Western Pacific)
What we learn from Sumatra Disaster 2025
NSI Hippy and NK Ritchie (Western Pacific)
From Classroom to Community: A Student-Informed Blood Donation Café in Japan
Tomohiko Sato, Noriko Namba, Akinori Hanai and Shigeyoshi Makino (Western Pacific)
The blood and cell therapy production center of the social security institute: a milestone for hemotherapy in Paraguay
Romi Alcaraz Paredes and Victor Ariel Sánchez Schlunk (Latin America)
The ongoing challenges and future directions for patient blood management
Katerina Pavenski (North America)
Questions or suggestions?
If you have any news from these regions that you would like to publish in this section, contact communication@isbtweb.org.
