Stories from Canadian Blood Services

With a family history of kidney disease, Angelica Rotundo knew she’d need a transplant one day. She found a living donor in her husband.

How we’re using social science to better understand why some communities encounter barriers to donating blood and how we can work to address existing challenges.

Jahnis Gillan will never forget her first meeting with the stem cell donor who saved her life

Sanjay Prajapati donated stem cells as a partial match, as an agonizing search for more suitable donors came up empty

Donating stem cells can save a life

Then, less than a year into new fatherhood, Adam Coletta needed a second transplant — this time from an unrelated donor