Creating healthier lives with plasma-based therapies

Southern Blood Services

Q: What do you do at Southern Blood Services?

A: Southern Blood Services is a specialty plasma center that collects high quality, antibody-enriched plasma that is processed into life-saving, plasma-based therapies. We are a small specialty center and offer one-on-one service.

Q: How does the Mothers Needed Program help save babies’ lives?

► BIRMINGHAM: 3928 Montclair Road, Suite 100

► HOOVER: 7191 Cahaba Valley Road, Suite 203

► CALL: 888-841-3937

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A: One of our favorite programs is the Mothers Needed Program or Rh Incompatibility Program. When a mother has a negative blood type and her baby has a positive blood type, there is a risk that the mother’s antibodies will attack the baby’s blood. This can cause the baby to become sick and even die. However, pregnant women with a negative blood type can safeguard the lives of their babies whose blood types are incompatible by receiving a medication called Rho D immune globulin, that is produced from plasma provided by our donors.

Q: How does that work? Do you need plasma donors to help with that?

A: Southern Blood cannot run without the caring individuals who are willing to donate their plasma. There is also a possible financial compensa-

► WHERE: 3800 Colonnade Parkway, Suite 200

► CALL: 205-967-8189

► WEB: southernbloodservices. com tion for donors of up to $700-plus per month, and the comfort of knowing they are helping others.

Q: What other programs do you offer?

A: We also have a Rabies Antibody Program and a more general Red Cell Antibody Program that can help people who have been exposed to viruses by boosting their immune system with those antibodies. If you have had the immunizations for these viruses or have another antibody of some kind, your donations could help someone have immunity against a virus to which he or she has been exposed.