Cada gota cuenta: donazione di sangue e volontariato in Argentina

In Argentina there is no blood supply sufficient to meet national needs, so the donation is based on a system known as de reposición, in which health services requests that the patient’s family offer their blood in order to store the one used during treatment. This makes the donation occurs mainly within the family and friendship, is a system that could be called “domestic”. The practice of donating blood is seen as necessary and commendable but it is inserted in an emergency setting that mostly creates a vicious circle, which does not allow the development of periodic donors, anonymous and voluntary. There are many difficulties for the institutions and associations that working to increase blood donors. These problematic are rooted in the culture and politics of the country itself, which only in recent years is attempting, also through international collaboration, to change the situation at national level