Is Your Blood Bank Prepared?
Tom Reardon, Abbott, and Bill Block, Blood Centers of America, discuss business continuity for your blood bank and ensuring you are prepared for any emergency.
Advancing in the Lab Professions through Long Distance Learning
Laurie Gillard, of the Rush University Medical Center, provides an in-depth discussion of how laboratory professionals are benefiting from distance learning.
Donor History Deferral: Current Research and New Considerations in Donor Selection
Dr. Brian Custer discusses U.S. studies focused on new approaches for donor selection and individual risk questioning strategies, and he reviews areas requiring further investigation, including ART and PrEP use.
The Use of Antiretroviral Therapies by Blood Donors and Risk Mitigation Strategies
In this video, Marion Vermeulen shares studies performed at the South African National Blood Service regarding donors presenting with HIV and risk mitigation strategies.
The HIV Pandemic: Evolution of Knowledge, Diagnostics, and Genomic Diversity
Dr. John Hackett discusses the evolution of technologies for HIV surveillance and implications for future pandemics.
TRACKING HIV AND HEPATITIS VIRUSES
HIV and hepatitis viruses can evolve into new and different strains. Abbott is committed to ongoing research to help our tests keep pace with these viruses. In 1994, Abbott established the Global Viral Surveillance Program to monitor and track new viral strains around the world.
THE EVOLUTION OF HIV
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is not a static infectious agent but a continually evolving virus. To stay one step ahead of HIV, scientists study how the virus is evolving over time
THE VIRUS HUNTERS
Abbott scientists working to identify, catalog, track and test mutating strains of HIV, hepatitis, and more, are members of Abbott’s Global Surveillance Program and new virus discovery efforts. The Surveillance Program is a one-of-a-kind collection of HIV and hepatitis virus strains from around the world, including more than 60,000 samples collected over 20 years from 40 countries on six continents
