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Title: | External financial aid to blood transfusion services in sub-saharan Africa: a need for reflection |
Authors: | Ala, Fereydoun Allain, Jean-Pierre Bates, Imelda Boukef, Kamel Boulton, Frank Brandful, James Dax, Elizabeth M. El Ekiaby, Magdy Farrugia, Albert Gorlin, Jed Hassall, Oliver Lee, Helen Loua, Andre´ Maitland, Kathryn Mbanya, Dora Mukhtar, Zainab Murphy, William Opare- Sem, Ohene Owusu-Ofori, Shirley Reesink, Henk Roberts, David Torres, Oscar Totoe, Grace Ullum, Henrik Wendel, Silvano |
Issue Date: | Sep-2012 |
Publisher: | PLOS Medicine |
Citation: | PLOS Medicine September 2012 | Volume 9 | Issue 9 | |
Abstract: | Over the past ten years, high-income
countries in the North have provided
considerable financial aid to establish and
support national blood transfusion services
in low-income countries in sub-Saharan
Africa. This action has largely been driven
by concerns relating to the contribution of
blood transfusion to the HIV epidemic in
the region, leading to the overwhelming
objective of ‘‘safe blood.’’ Whilst there
have been definite benefits to transfusion
services, we believe this aid has resulted in
unintended but serious negative outcomes,
which we describe here and argue should
prompt a re-thinking of how to provide
support to blood transfusion services in
sub-Saharan Africa. |
Description: | PLOS Medicine September 2012 | Volume 9 | Issue 9. Also available at www.plosmedicine.org |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7000 |
Appears in Collections: | College of Health Sciences
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