Project Overview:
An international repeated cross-sectional observational study of blood
donation in Sub-Saharan Africa
SHORT TITLE: African BLOODSAFE Blood Donor Study (ABDS)
A repeated cross-sectional observational study conducted over the
duration of the BLOODSAFE project with a minimum of two 3-week
enrolment periods per year to determine the number of blood
donation attempts over time. All individuals seeking to donate
blood at participating sites in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will
contribute to data collection one time on the day of donation.
Individuals will be invited to consent to additional one-time data
collection that is beyond the scope of standard data collected by
the national blood service for that country. Additional objectives
are to determine the number and proportion of successful blood
donation attempts (i.e., those that result in generating blood
available for transfusion) over time and assess donor risk factors
for unsuccessful donation.
Principal Investigators:
Meghan Delaney, Cavan Reilly, Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko, Pratap Kumar and
Bridon M’baya