The Blood Matters Blog

Following the viral success of a sickle cell disease video campaign in Canada, Global Blood Fund's executive director had a thought: How can we get this to Africa?

Gage Bullard was diagnosed with lymphoblastic lymphoma in February of 2017 when he was just a senior in high school. After years of treatment, Gage can say he is cancer-free and happily married with two beautiful children. It was a future he had hoped to build, but at one point wasn't sure he would have.

Worried by her test results, OBI Medical Director Dr. Michael Stevenson advised Jennifer Cotto see her doctor immediately. It was there Jennifer learned she had leukemia, a diagnosis made in time to save her life.

Thirty donor beds were sent to multiple blood centers across Mexico after San Antonio's South Texas Blood & Tissue donated them through Global Blood Fund.

Using donor-volunteered plasma, Our Blood Institute has successfully developed a new serum that has incredible life-saving potential for cancer patients.

Newly published findings out of Duke University Medical Center support the idea that red blood cell exchanges can significantly help sickle cell patients.

Our Blood Institute has received a 3-year reaccreditation of its Cell Therapy program following a zero deficiency inspection.

Senate Bill 2186, the Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act, would allow for end-of-life patients to more easily receive at-home blood transfusions and, ultimately, more compassionate health care.

In 2014, Global Blood Fund helped send an aging blood donation bus to a budding NGO in Lebanon. Ten years later, the bus is still running strong and saving lives across the country.

Blood transfusion kept Denise alive after losing 90% of her blood following a car accident in 2011.

Eleven-year-old Addyson Church is facing a battle no child should endure. Addyson was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in February of 2023.

When a San Antonio blood center let Global Blood Fund know about their intention to donate an aging bloodmobile, we went to work finding it a new home. Now it's on its way to Juarez, Mexico.