Blood Safety

PAHO Grants Funds to Improve Transfusion Safety

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 29th, 2001

The safety of blood used for transfusion in the Americas is set to improve as a result of a three-year grant for $4.9 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will enable the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to set up a regional initiative to strengthen country-level blood safety programs.

At present, only 18 countries - eight in the English-speaking Caribbean, eight in Latin America, and two in North America - report screening 100% of donated blood for the viruses that cause AIDS, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. Dr. Jose Ramiro Cruz, PAHO, said, "This means that annually, around 50,000 units of blood are transfused without being screened for HIV and...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2001-01-29)

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