{"id":203841,"date":"2026-04-20T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:29:34","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-red-cross-having-a-diverse-blood-supply-is-vital-due-to-constant-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203841\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Red Cross Having A Diverse Blood Supply Is Vital Due To Constant Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"> April is National Minority Health Month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The American Red Cross is working to increase blood donations and testing more people for diseases disproportionately impact minorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Red Cross officials say there is a constant need for blood because almost 16 million blood components are transfused every year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some diseases including an inherited blood disorder called thalassemia and sickle cell, which both mainly affect  minority groups, require regular blood transfusions. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say having a more diverse group of donors can help ensure there&#8217;s enough blood supply for everyone.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The organization says that one in three African-American donors are a match for a patient with sickle cell. In 2021, they launched the sickle cell initiative. As a result, more than 170,000 first-time African American donors gave blood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve also been able to reverse the declining trend of African-American donors throughout the country through our initiative and so I think that is a huge testament to the community understanding the importance of blood donation,&#8221; says Tiffany Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April is National Minority Health Month. The American Red Cross is working to increase blood donations and testing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-203841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}