Accreditation program for blood banking and cell therapy services – a defining moment in the expansion and qualification of Brazilian services

he Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terpia Celular (ABHH) and the American Association of Blood anks (AABB), previously called the American Society of Blood anks, have been working together since 2011 to develop a oint accreditation program for blood banking and transfusion, nd cell therapy services based on the AABB standards. The program is an accreditation model with international tandards designed by these two institutions to maintain and mprove the quality and safety of blood transfusion, tissue ransplantation and cell therapy activities carried out by serices in Brazil. Started in 2006, the stages of the project were jointly esigned by the two organizations with the aim of transorming the services into an innovative and exemplary usiness. The initial agreement was signed during the Brazilan Congress of Hematology, Hematology and Cell Therapy Hemo 2011) in November 2011 with the goal of developing he AABB/ABHH Accreditation Program for Blood Banking and ransfusion Services. The program was officially launched in Brazil at Hemo 012. At this time, the partnership was expanded to include ell therapy, thus giving rise to the Accreditation Program for ellular Therapy Services with the aim of guaranteeing the