The Organizations and Institutions Having Liaison Members With ICBS in 2003 African Society of Blood Transfusion (ASBT), Harare, Zimbabwe America's Blood Centers (ABC), Washington, D.C., U.S.A. American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), Rockville, MD., U.S.A. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA., U.S.A. Blood Centers of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA., U.S.A. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA,.U.S.A. German Institute for Documentation and Standardization in Laboratory Medicine (INSTAND), Berlin, Germany. International Federation of Red Cross/Crescent Societies (IFRCS) Geneva, Switzerland International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Japan Red Cross, Tokyo, Japan. L'Institut National Transfusion Sanquine (INTS), Paris, France New York Blood Center (NYBC), New York, U.S.A. National Institute of Health (NIH), Heart Lung Blood, Bethesda, MD., U.S.A. Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, WA., U.S.A Shanghai Blood Center, Shanghai, China. Thalassemia International Federation (TIF), Nicosia, Cyprus World Bank, Washington, DC, U.S.A. World Health Organization (WHO/HQ, Geneva, Switzerland