Dear friends, The Ana Rukavina Foundation procured 500 tests for HLA typing of samples of potential donors who entered the Croatian Bone Marrow Donor Registry on February 2, 2021, in Vinkovci, prompted by a call for help in finding an unrelated donor for a seven-year-old girl, Lucija Šuvaković from Vinkovci suffering from acute myeloid leukemia.
>>World Cancer Day
Dear friends, today is marked World Cancer Day to raise awareness about cancer, its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
>>128th transplantation from the Croatian Registry
Dear friends, in December 2020 and January 2021, two stem cell transplants were performed!
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Happy New Year!
Dear friends, we sincerely wish you a lot of peace and health in the new year.
>>The Ana Rukavina Foundation donated 200,000.00 kunas for the earthquake-affected areas
In these difficult and challenging times, the Ana Rukavina Foundation continues its mission of saving lives. During December, the Ana Rukavina Foundation held its traditional humanitarian action and concert “I want life” with the support of Nova TV partners.
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Merry Christmas!
Dear friends, from the bottom of our hearts we wish you a Christmas filled with peace, love, joy, and happiness. Circumstances may separate us from our loved ones but the joy of Christmas gives us hope and faith in better days ahead of us.
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The concert “I want life” of the Ana Rukavina Foundation and Nova TV reunited Croatia: more than one million kunas raised
Dear friends, last night we had the opportunity to enjoy the Christmas concert “I want life” broadcast on Nova TV, the DNEVNIK.hr portal, and the DNEVNIK.hr Facebook page. The Christmas concert is the culmination of the humanitarian action “I want life”, and the biggest stars of the Croatian music scene, Severina and Petar Grašo, performed. During the broadcast of the […]
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Tonka’s Big Friend
In the summer of 2019, Mr. Leonardo Čeči Baksa, author of many children’s stories and lyricist of numerous music hits, came to the Ana Rukavina Foundation with a story he wanted to donate to the Ana Rukavina Foundation to encourage and give hope to small patients struggling with malignant diseases.
>>126th transplantation from the Croatian Registry
Dear friends, we have received a notification from the Croatian Bone Marrow Donor Registry that another hematopoietic stem cell transplant was performed in November.
>>100 HLA typing from September to November
Dear friends, we have received the report from the Clinical Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Biology of the University Hospital Centre Zagreb on the new 100 typed samples from September to November. The samples were typed at three loci: HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-DRB1 and now the number of typed potential donors is 63,524.
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