What (who) is National Blood Donation Week - definition
National Blood Donation Week
IN THE UNITED STATES, THE FIRST FULL WEEK OF SEPTEMBER IS DESIGNATED NATIONAL BLOOD DONATION WEEK.
In the United States, the first full week of September is designated National Blood Donation Week. Established in 2016, the week United States is to hold individual state blood donation days.
Blood donation
 (9759061442).jpg?width=200 "Whole blood is often separated, using a centrifuge, into components for storage and transportation.")
![US Navy]] sailor donating blood](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blood donation at Fleet Week USA.jpg?width=200 "US Navy]] sailor donating blood")
![Suma-ku]], [[Kobe]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], [[Japan]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JRC Hyogo Blood Center bloodmobiles 2008-01-14.jpg?width=200 "Suma-ku]], [[Kobe]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], [[Japan]]")
![Monument to blood donors in [[Ávila, Spain]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monumento a los Donantes de Sangre en Ávila.JPG?width=200 "Monument to blood donors in [[Ávila, Spain]]")
![Platelets collected by using [[apheresis]] at an [[American Red Cross]] donation center](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Platelets collected by using apheresis.jpg?width=200 "Platelets collected by using [[apheresis]] at an [[American Red Cross]] donation center")
![Blood donation center at the [[University Hospital of Basel]], Switzerland. From left to right: Two cell separators for [[apheresis]], secluded office for pre-donation blood pressure measurement and [[blood count]], and on the right, chairs for whole blood donations.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saal Blutspendezentrum Basel 3.jpg?width=200 "Blood donation center at the [[University Hospital of Basel]], Switzerland. From left to right: Two cell separators for [[apheresis]], secluded office for pre-donation blood pressure measurement and [[blood count]], and on the right, chairs for whole blood donations.")
![Ruby award from the [[Singapore Red Cross]] for 75 voluntary donations](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Singapore Red Cross National Blood Programme Ruby Award.jpg?width=200 "Ruby award from the [[Singapore Red Cross]] for 75 voluntary donations")
![UK]] awards for 50, 25 and 100 donations](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UK Blood Donor Awards.jpg?width=200 "UK]] awards for 50, 25 and 100 donations")
OCCURS WHEN A PERSON OR OTHER MAMMAL VOLUNTARILY HAS BLOOD DRAWN
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A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole blood components). Donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly (apheresis).
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OCCURS WHEN A PERSON OR OTHER MAMMAL VOLUNTARILY HAS BLOOD DRAWN
Blood donor; Give blood; Blood donations; Give Blood; Giving blood; Donating blood; Blooddrive; Blood Drives; Donor blood; Blood Donation; Blood giving; Full blood; Donate blood; Whole blood donation; Blood Donor; Blood donor sites; Donations of blood; Blood market; Blood trade
allow blood to be removed medically from one's body in order to be stored for use in transfusions.
