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BIOLOGICALS
卷 38, 期 1, 页码 39-42出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2009.10.017
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Blood donors; Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a continental West African country of approximately 16 M people whose transfusion needs were covered by 66,210 blood units collected mostly in 4 regional transfusion centers part of a national network but also from hospital-based smaller blood centers. The first group of blood centers relies almost exclusively on volunteer, non-remunerated, blood donors and only approximately 32 7% of them are repeating donation. In contrast, hospital-based blood centers rely nearly exclusively on family/replacement donors. The general strategy of the national blood transfusion network was to base the system exclusively on volunteer donors, which was nearly accomplished overall and completely at Bobo-Dioulasso, the largest center However, despite considerable increase in blood collection, the overall blood supply remains low (4.7 units/1000 inhabitants) and worsens during the secondary school recesses since young student blood constitutes the most part of volunteer donors. To overcome such shortages, mobile blood collection sessions are organized in alternate sites such as military barracks or places of worship but with limited success. Another critical issue is that despite considerable efforts and help from community advocates, only 32.7% of volunteers repeat donation limiting the considerably safety advantage of a pool of regular donors (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The International Association for Biologicals.
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