It’s relatively easy for Western governments to gather the quantity of blood that’s needed. Increasing the rewards for blood donations straightforwardly increases the amount of blood that’s given.
Ensuring the quality of blood donations is harder. If you would pay out strong financial rewards you would get a lot of homeless people to donated blood and their blood is more likely to be contaminated by viruses than that of the people who donate blood because they are motivated by altruistic reasons instead of financial reasons.
As far as I remember the accepted rate for AIDS infections is somwhere between 1 in 1-10 million blood transfusions at the moment. A lot of minor virsues like adenovirsues for which we don’t test could also be passed on via blood transfusions without us understanding well how often that currently happens.
Policy-wise, it seems that the existing amber alert motivates enough people to donate. If it would probably make sense to say that if there’s an amber alert that automatically raises financial rewards to donate blood.
It’s relatively easy for Western governments to gather the quantity of blood that’s needed. Increasing the rewards for blood donations straightforwardly increases the amount of blood that’s given.
Ensuring the quality of blood donations is harder. If you would pay out strong financial rewards you would get a lot of homeless people to donated blood and their blood is more likely to be contaminated by viruses than that of the people who donate blood because they are motivated by altruistic reasons instead of financial reasons.
As far as I remember the accepted rate for AIDS infections is somwhere between 1 in 1-10 million blood transfusions at the moment. A lot of minor virsues like adenovirsues for which we don’t test could also be passed on via blood transfusions without us understanding well how often that currently happens.
Policy-wise, it seems that the existing amber alert motivates enough people to donate. If it would probably make sense to say that if there’s an amber alert that automatically raises financial rewards to donate blood.