External Financial Aid to Blood Transfusion Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Need for Reflection

Fereydoun Ala; Jean Pierre Allain; Imelda Bates; Kamel Boukef; Frank Boulton; James Brandful; Elizabeth M. Dax; Magdy El Ekiaby; Albert Farrugia; Jed Gorlin; Oliver Hassall; Helen Lee; André Loua; Kathryn Maitland; Dora Mbanya; Zainab Mukhtar; William Murphy; Ohene Opare-Sem; Shirley Owusu-Ofori; Henk Reesink; David Roberts; Oscar Torres; Grace Totoe; Henrik Ullum; Silvano Wendel

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001309

External Financial Aid to Blood Transfusion Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Need for Reflection

Fereydoun Ala
, Jean Pierre Allain
, Imelda Bates
, Kamel Boukef
, Frank Boulton
, James Brandful
, Elizabeth M. Dax
, Magdy El Ekiaby
, Albert Farrugia
, Jed Gorlin
, Oliver Hassall
, Helen Lee
, André Loua
, Kathryn Maitland
, Dora Mbanya
, Zainab Mukhtar
, William Murphy
, Ohene Opare-Sem
, Shirley Owusu-Ofori
, Henk Reesink

David Roberts, Oscar Torres, Grace Totoe, Henrik Ullum, Silvano Wendel

International Public Health

University of Cambridge
University of Monastir
University of Southampton
University of Ghana
Shabrawishi Hospital
University of Western Australia
Memorial Blood Centers of Minnesota
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
University of Oxford
University of Guinée
Imperial College London
Université de Yaoundé I
Transfusion Medicine
University College Dublin
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Academic Medical Center
NHS Blood and Transplant
Hospital Materno-Infantil Ramón Sardá
Community Blood Center
University of Copenhagen
Hospital Sirio-Libanes

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Original language	English
Article number	e1001309
Pages (from-to)	e1001309
Journal	PLoS Medicine
Volume	9
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001309
Publication status	Published - 11 Sept 2012

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Ala, F., Allain, J. P., Bates, I., Boukef, K., Boulton, F., Brandful, J., Dax, E. M., El Ekiaby, M., Farrugia, A., Gorlin, J., Hassall, O., Lee, H., Loua, A., Maitland, K., Mbanya, D., Mukhtar, Z., Murphy, W., Opare-Sem, O., Owusu-Ofori, S., ... Wendel, S. (2012). External Financial Aid to Blood Transfusion Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Need for Reflection. PLoS Medicine, 9(9), e1001309. Article e1001309. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001309

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