Blood Safety

Kenyan Study Could Help Other African Countries Improve HIV Blood-Transfusion Strategies

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 16th, 2001

A 1994 study that highlighted the problem of HIV-1 transmission from blood-transfusion programs in Kenya, and which resulted in positive government action, could help other African countries develop safer blood-transfusion strategies, according to a paper in the August 23, 2001, issue of the Lancet.

Little support for blood-safety programs has been provided to less-developed countries over the past decade. The Kenya Ministry of Health did a collaborative multicenter assessment with Robert Janssen and colleagues from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The aims of this study were to establish the risk of HIV transmission by transfusion in...

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