11 June 2012 | KINGSTON/JAMAICA

On 14 June 2012, countries worldwide will celebrate World Blood Donor Day with events to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.  World Blood Donor Day was established by the World Health Assembly in 2004 and its scope of events increases every year in recognition of the need to strengthen blood services and to express gratitude to all those selfless individuals who donate their blood for people they will never meet.