Blood supply safety in Afghanistan: a national assessment of high‐volume facilities

Abstract

Lapses in proper donor screening contributed to the presence of confirmed-positive units available for transfusion, as detected in this study. Steps must be taken to ensure standardization of testing kits requirements, documentation, and mandatory training and continuing education for blood bank staff with regard to counseling, drawing, processing, and transfusion of blood products.

The epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Afghanistan: systematic review and meta-analysis

“…21 Out of all of these records, 14 reports and one HCV prevalence measure were excluded for the following reasons: not meeting the eligibility criteria, the full-text or abstract (if the full-text was not available) not including data on relevant indicators, or being a duplicate of another study included in the review. Since different sources provided data on HCV prevalence among blood donors from the Central Blood Bank, 19,21,[37][38][39][40][41] and to avoid potential duplication, the data obtained directly from the Afghanistan National Blood Safety and Transfusion Services were used whenever these were available, i.e., for the time period 2000-2015. 21 These data had nearly always the largest sample size for HCV testing.…”