The Blood Matters Blog

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.

The National Institutes of Health grant award enables BioLinked, an Our Blood Institute-founded startup, to expand and support the program’s growing blood center network.

Fifteen years in, Global Blood Fund has made a remarkable difference in the lives of people all over the world. None of it would have been possible without your support.

You can give back to your community through a simple blood donation with Our Blood Institute on Tuesday, November 28, 2023.

Diagnosed with a rare blood disorder at three months old, Declan de Gruy requires O negative blood transfusions every three weeks.

Aaron received as many as 14 blood and platelet transfusions donated to him by dedicated blood donors. He most recently served his country in the U.S. Army before returning home to the Texas panhandle.

One-year-old Declan de Gruy was born with Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a rare blood disorder where the body doesn't produce red blood cells, causing little Declan to need a blood transfusion every three weeks.

The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, or AABB, honored Global Blood Fund's Gavin Evans for his and the nonprofit's work feeding blood center workers in Ukraine.

Since the first days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, employees of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Blood Service Center have worked tirelessly in the face of life-threatening conditions.