Regional

This Regional section features news from four regions: Latin America, Western Pacific, Eastern Mediterranean and North America. For this July 2025 issue, articles were invited by the Regional Directors: Christian Erikstrup (Europe), Satyam Arora (South East Asia) and Yanli Ji (Western Pacific).

Building the evidence base to protect plasma donors: Why Europe needs a large, multicentre randomised controlled trial on plasma donation frequency

Christian Erikstrup, Peter O’Leary and Katja van den Hurk (Europe)

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Delivering lifesaving blood when roads can’t reach: Leveraging drones for Transfusion resilience

Sangeeta Pahuja and Sumit Aggarwal (South East Asia)

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High-volume plasma exchange (HVPLEX) in acute liver failure (ALF): A tertiary care perspective

Manjuma Rahman and Kalyan Broto Roy (South East Asia)

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Let us advance research to transform scientific discoveries into clinical benefits for Asian-type DEL carriers

Yanli Ji (Western Pacific)

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Programmed cell death resulted from ABO blood group reaction in RBCs

Xingbin Hu (Western Pacific)

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Questions or suggestions?

If you have any news from these regions that you would like to publish in this section, contact communication@isbtweb.org.

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