The impact of External donor support through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief on the cost of red cell concentrate in Namibia, 2004-2011

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 240-247

  Pitman, John P ^a   Bocking, Adele ^b   Wilkinson, Robert ^b   Postma, Maarten J ^c,d   Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a   Von Finckenstein, Bjorn ^b   Mataranyika, Mary ^e   Marfin, Anthony A ^a   Lowrance, David W ^f   Sibinga, Cees Th Smit ^g  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Namibian Blood Transfusion Service   (Namibia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g ID Consulting for International Development of Transfusion Medicine   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood safety; Costing; Namibia; PEPFAR

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST; EMERGENCY CARE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMIBIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SANITATION; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BLOOD DONOR; ECONOMICS; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BLOOD DONORS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HUMANS; MALE; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84927515843     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2014.0122-14     Document Type: Article

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