Four transfusions Joey had to have.

She's in the hospital. Needs three transfusions a day.

It's very strange. She had well recovered with transfusions.

I gave her three transfusions. We had the same type blood type O.

Traditionally, HIV spread rapidly through some parts of China as a result of infected blood transfusions.

In Darfur, UNFPA provided supplies and equipment for safe childbirth, blood transfusions, prevention of sexually transmissible infections and other reproductive health needs.

WASHINGTON, DC In most developed countries, patients can be confident about the safety of blood transfusions. The problem is that maintaining a steady, uncontaminated supply of donor blood is not always easy.

According to the Ministry of Health, 72.5 per cent of cases are recorded as being sexually transmitted, 1.1 per cent perinatally and 0.9 per cent via blood (including transfusions and intravenous injection of drugs).

315. Up to 1986, blood transfusions were the main source of HIV transmission to Mexican women. Mujer Adolescente, Adulta y Anciana. Mexico 1992. At the present time, the most frequent method is sexual transmission.

Simple blood tests, a doctor s consultation, and someone qualified to help with the birth can make a huge difference. Add some basic antibiotics, blood transfusions, and a safe operating room, and the risk of death can almost be eliminated.

The natural or adoptive parents of a child up to the age of sixteen (16) years, who suffers by a disease which requires transfusions of blood and its derivatives or hemodialysis, are entitled to an additional leave of 10 working days annually.

The idea of using blood substitutes was first advanced in the seventeenth century, and continues to attract researchers today. Several products that could revolutionize transfusion medicine have already been developed in the pursuit of shelf stable, portable, one type fits all blood substitutes, which could replace standard blood transfusions in extreme situations, such as on the battlefield.

In the aftermath of the tsunami, the United Nations and its various agencies, funds and programmes mobilized rapidly to mount a coordinated response, providing immediate humanitarian relief food aid water purification, emergency health and sanitation kits temporary shelters and supplies for emergency obstetrical care, safe blood transfusions and vaccinations and coordinating efforts for long term rehabilitation and reconstruction of the affected areas.

317. The General Health Act requires the launching of campaigns to control and eradicate transmissible diseases which present a real or potential problem for the general health of the community and, in article 136, makes it mandatory that the health authority should be informed of cases of infectious diseases, including AIDS. The relevant articles of the Act were also amended to make HIV testing compulsory in the case of all blood transfusions and to ban the sale of blood plasma.