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Safe blood saves lives This year, World Blood Donor Day will once again take place in every country of the world on 14 June and TIF will be joining the celebrations! The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise awareness ...

On 14 June 2020 WHO and all countries worldwide will celebrate World Blood Donor Day!   The campaign theme for this year’s World Blood Donor Day is “Safe blood saves lives” with the slogan “Give blood and make the world a healthier place”. The idea is to focus on the ...

On 16 April, TIF and the European Hematology Association (EHA) successfully organised a highly interactive webinar entitled ”Thalassaemia/SCD and COVID-19: Possible risks and a proposal for a patient pathway during the pandemic”, which registered more than 700 participants from all over the world! Experts from Italy & Cyprus, including TIF’s ...

After the successful Capacity Building Workshop for Patient Organizations & Patients with thalassaemia, TIF will be traveling to Thessaloniki, Greece for a High-Level Thalassaemia & Sickle Cell Disease Healthcare Professionals’ Summit, to be held on 1-2 November 2019. Seeking to inform the healthcare community working in Europe about the optimal ...

After the successful Capacity Building Workshop for Patient Organizations & Patients with thalassaemia in Hamburg, Germany, TIF will be traveling to Thessaloniki, Greece for a High-Level Thalassaemia & Sickle Cell Disease Healthcare Professionals’ Summit, to be held on 1-2 November 2019. Seeking to inform the healthcare community working in Europe ...

TIF aspires to continuously empower patients with thalassaemia and other haemoglobin disorders, encourage them to create and consolidate partnerships, both with other thalassaemia associations and with external stakeholders, establish impactful management programmes in their respective countries, and ensure, by doing so, that all patients with thalassaemia have an improved quality ...

134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to 2.6 million deaths annually! Safety in health systems is a major global concern due to the enlarging numbers of people suffering avoidable harm while receiving healthcare. Recognizing the urgency of ...

This year, World Blood Donor Day will once again be celebrated around the world on 14 June! The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals and ...

The National Thalassemia Welfare Society and the Department of Pediatrics jointly organise the 9th National Thalassemia Conference at Swaran Jayanti Auditorium, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals Near Shivaji Stadium, New Delhi. Attending, Dr Androulla Eleftheriou, TIF Executive Director and Dr Michael Angastiniotis, TIF Medical Advisor.   Date: 24th & 25th November 2018 ...

World Hepatitis Day is celebrated every year on the 28 July and aims at raising awareness on the global burden of Hepatitis and influence real change. Thalassaemia patients, due to regular blood transfusions, are at increased risk of contracting Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) stressing the importance and ...