Has private paid plasma had an impact in these countries?

Posted on: August 30th, 2016 by webmaster

Yes.

In Germany & Austria the European Blood Alliance Report released in 2013 details the fact that when private paid-plasma clinics were introduced the voluntary system “lost” donors and could not regain them back into the public system.

In the US, there are multiple examples of poor and vulnerable populations selling their blood plasma to make ends meet. Read The Atlantic article “The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma”.