Blood safety: a strategy for the African Region: report of the Regional Director
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Abstract
1. Blood safety is still a major concern of countries in the African Region in view of the highprevalence of HIV/AIDS and other transfusion-transmissible infections.2. In 1994, the forty-fourth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, by its resolutionAFR/RC44/R12, invited Member States to take urgent measures to formulate and implement a policyon blood transfusion safety, mobilize resources for developing the infrastructure of the bloodtransfusion services of central and district hospitals and set the objectives for the transfusion, inhospital settings, of blood uninfected by HIV.3. Today, very few countries have acquired the structures and resources needed to promote thedevelopment of blood transfusion services.4. The present strategy aims to propose concrete actions and a framework that will help thecountries to have reliable and sustainable transfusion facilities.5. The success of this strategy will depend primarily on the mobilization of adequate financial andmaterial resources and the preparation and implementation of a realistic plan, based on an objectiveanalysis of the situation prevailing in each country.6. The priority interventions are the formulation and implementation of national blood transfusionpolicies, quality assurance, mobilization of funds and development of human resources.7. The Regional Committee is invited to examine this strategy, enrich it, adopt it and giveguidance for its implementation.Citation
Regional Committee for Africa, 51. (2011). Blood safety: a strategy for the African Region: report of the Regional Director. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/1888
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AFR/RC51/9 Rev.1