In 2001, the WHO Office for Africa adopted a strategy for blood safety defining four targets. This paper describes the progress made by Mauritius in the implementation of this strategy. The blood safety indicators were collected and compared with the norms recommended by WHO. The country has formulated its blood policy and developed a strategic plan for its implementation since 2004. The total ...

The existence and sustenance of the blood bank depends on blood donors. It is imperative that the donation experience is satisfactory for the donors. Therefore this study was carried out to determine the frequency of undesirable events experienced by the blood donor as part of donor haemovigilance. This was a retrospective descriptive study of the events that occurred amongst the blood donors o...

AIM OF THE STUDY The lack of traceability and monitoring of blood donors and transfused patients constitute a barrier to the most basic rules of haemovigilance and overall good transfusion practices. This study draws up an inventory of knowledge, attitudes and clinical practice of blood prescribers in Niamey. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was administered to 180 prescribers of blood p...

Background: In malaria-endemic populations, sickle cell trait (SCT) protects against both severe and non-severe malaria, but inconsistencies exist about protective effect of SCT on asymptomatic malarial parasitemia (AMP). Surprisingly, the Hb-phenotypes AMP has not been explored among blood donors in Nigeria or other countries, where risks transfusion transmitted malaria (TTM) are high. The obj...

The use of allogeneic blood is associated with many complications. A baseline audit performed in our institution in 2000 showed that 11% of patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) required post-operative transfusion. Following this audit, patients undergoing primary TKA were no longer routinely cross matched, a Haemovigilance Nurse was employed in compliance with the National ...

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

background: iran is one of the countries located on “the thalassemia belt” with a significant annual number of thalassemia new births. given the importance of thalassemia prevention, a program to this effect was approved in iran in 1995. screening of carrier couples and prenatal diagnosis were the two main elements of this program. in the present study, the authors have tried to address the imp...