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In the past the WHO recommended countries don't compensate for blood or plasma donations. The following countries countries decided to still allow compensation
by pkaye 1y ago
In the past the WHO recommended countries don't compensate for blood or plasma donations. The following countries countries decided to still allow compensation for plasma donations for drug products: Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the US.
Its just that the US has the largest population of these five countries. And generally the rest of the countries outside the five don't get sufficient plasma donations to make the drug products needed for their patients and have to import it.
The plasma can be separated out to different products to treat various diseases many of them genetic.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/approved-blood-products/fractionated-plasma-products https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/approved-blood-...
The only ones to hold accountable are the WHO and those countries that followed their advice. If more countries paid for plasma donations there would be more supply of these drug products available.
- lproven 1y ago> the Czech Republic Interesting. Now I know why in a small town I regularly visit there's a high-street plasma "clinic". Sad news.