Should Kiribati continue to aim for 100% voluntary non-remunerated blood donation as recommended by the WHO?

This research was conducted through the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT), a global partnership led by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO/TDR). The model is based on a course developed jointly by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union, Paris, France) and Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF/Doctors Without Borders, Geneva,Switzerland). The current training course was run in the South Pacific by The Union and the Public Health Division of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea,New Caledonia. Additional support for the course was provided by the School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; the Research Unit, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Fiji; Regional Public Health, Hutt Valley District Health Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand; University of Melbourne,Melbourne, VIC, Australia;The Victorian Tuberculosis Programme, Melbourne,VIC, Australia; Australian National University,Canberra, ACT, Australia; and Pacific Island Health Officers’ Association, Honolulu, HI, USA.Funding for the course was provided by The Union and SPC. Costs for open access publication were funded by La Fondation Veuve Emile Metz-Tesch (Luxembourg).The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Conflicts of interest: none declared.