Opinion Paper

Impact of COVID-19 on blood donation and supply in Africa

Kenneth B. David, Knovicks Simfukwe, Mohamed B. Musa, Steven Munharo, Don E. Lucero-Prisno III
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 10, No 1 | a1408 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1408 | © 2021 Kenneth Bitrus David, Knovicks Simfukwe, Mohamed Babiker Musa, Steven Munharo, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 September 2020 | Published: 25 October 2021

About the author(s)

Kenneth B. David, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria; and, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
Knovicks Simfukwe, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Mohamed B. Musa, Faculty of Pharmacy, Omdurman Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan
Steven Munharo, Training and Research Unit of Excellence, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
Don E. Lucero-Prisno III, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

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Keywords

blood donation; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Africa; pandemic

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