Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition

We are the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition (Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion Coalition), an international collaboration of doctors, researchers, patient advocates, and policymakers committed to eliminating the world's blood deserts: regions of the world with little to no access to lifesaving blood products. We believe no one should die from a lack of a transfusion. And yet, each year, millions of people still suffer preventable deaths from complications of injury, childbirth, gastrointestinal bleeding, sickle cell crises, anemia, and more, simply because they live in an area without blood. We are committed to promoting the research, education, and implementation agenda necessary to identify disparities in blood access and improve global blood infrastructure by exploring practical, sustainable solutions such as civilian walking blood banks, intraoperative autotransfusion, and drone-delivery of blood products.