Only the USA and four countries in Europe (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic) currently allow people to be paid for donating their blood plasma. Other countries have been reconsidering due to shortages and over-reliance on plasma imports from the USA.
1,000After some reading I'm not sure the resolution criteria are totally clear.
There are countries that are not considered to allow donor compensation for blood components, but donors are often still compensated in a non-monetary way, for example with a cookie and a drink.
In Hungary, the donor is not compensated for the blood component in the legal sense. They can be compensated for travel and their time and the calories lost. Because the legal maximum is high enough to motivate (from the donor's pov) non-charitable donations, we consider these rules to allow paid donations. (Or because it's high enough to motivate enough people that plasma donation stations are economic to set up for companies.)
If this maximum was decreased below a break-even threshold for some percentage of potential donors, (or below the threshold where stations have to be closed for not being econically viable) would we then consider this regulation to ban paid donations?
If a country where non-monetary compensation is allowed would legislate to also allow meal vouchers of equal value or cash of equal value, would that then count as allowing paid donations?
Or are a few articles proclaiming that paid donations are now legal in X country enough to resolve this yes?