The REDS program in China:a collaboration on blood safety with Chinese blood centers and Johns Hopkins Medicine

The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) was established in 1989 with funding from the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute ( NHLBI ) of the National Institutes of Health in the United States.The initial program coordinated activities in five large US blood centers in San Francisco,Los Angeles,Oklahoma City,Detroit,and Baltimore with a coordinating center Westat in Rockville MD.

The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study （REDS） was established in 1989 with funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute （ NHLBI ） of the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The initial program coordinated activities in five large US blood centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Detroit, and Baltimore with a coordina- ting center Westat in Rockville MD. The mission of the REDS program was to investigate human retroviruses in volunteer blood donors,