ICCBBA Enterprise Grant

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​Thank you to all applicants who applied for the ICCBBA Enterprise Grant 2024. We appreciate your dedication to advancing patient safety standards. The 2025 ICCBBA Enterprise Grant application process will open on February 4, 2025. More information on how to apply will be available in the new year—stay tuned!

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Organization Description:

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ICCBBA is an international non-profit organization that manages, develops, and licenses ISBT 128, the international information standard for the terminology, coding, and labeling of Medical Products of Human Origin (MPHO). ICCBBA also manages the allocation of globally unique identifiers to licensed facilities and maintains the ISBT 128 Standard, international databases for Facility Identification Numbers and Product Description Codes, supporting documentation, and educational materials.

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ICCBBA recognizes that safe and efficient systems for transfusion, transplantation, administration, and application of MPHO require an underlying organizational capacity that is well developed and quality driven. ICCBBA in particular wishes to support initiatives in resource-constrained settings that are aimed at developing such capacity, particularly where initiatives have an impact on electronic information management and/or traceability of MPHO leading to greater safety and efficiency.

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Objectives of the Enterprise Grant:

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• To build technical capacity in transfusion and/or transplantation activities in terms of safety and efficiency.

• To assist transfusion/transplantation establishments in achieving reliable traceability of all MPHO that they manage.

• To enable ICCBBA to achieve its mission to enhance patient safety through developing and maintaining international information standards for MPHO

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Past Recipients

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2024 - Safe Blood for Africa Foundation - ICCBBA is delighted to spotlight the recipient of our 2023 Enterprise Grant: the Safe Blood for Africa (SBFA) Foundation, for their transformative project at the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital Blood Service in Cameroon. Led by Pr. Claude Tayou Tagny, Country Project Coordinator for the SBFA Foundation, this initiative focused on the Improvement of the Quality Management System through the Installation of a Data Management and Labeling System. The project ran from 10th September 2021 to 13th July 2022, delivering critical advancements in the operational efficiency and traceability of blood products at the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital.

 

2023 - ISCPP - The 2022 grant went to the International Coalition for Safe Plasma Proteins (ICSPP). ICCBBA awarded $20,000 to help address the global insufficiency of plasma-derived medicinal products that are unavailable or unaffordable in many low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) and the consequent suffering and early mortality of patients with bleeding disorders and immune deficiencies who lack adequate treatments.

 

​2021 - Safe Blood for Africa Foundation

The Safe Blood for Africa Foundation (SBFA) is a nonprofit organization with offices throughout Africa, are the recipients of the 2021 ICCBBA Enterprise Grant for their continued improvements to transfusion safety practices in Cameroon.​

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​2020 - Dr. Sardjito Hospital and Safe Blood for Africa Foundation

Dr. Sardjito Hospital, a nonprofit teaching hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the SBFA, a nonprofit organization with offices throughout Africa, are the recipients of the 2020 ICCBBA Enterprise Grant. Both proposals aim to improve transfusion safety practices in Indonesia and Cameroon, respectively.

(Press Release)

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2017 - Global Healing

Global Healing, a nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, California, USA, was selected for its proposal to strengthen the quality management system of the blood bank at the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM) in Haiti.

(Press Release)