Publications - Blood Safety, Laboratories & Health Technology

WHO Patient Safety Newsletter: Focus on Africa
In this eighth edition, WHO Envoy for Patient Safety Sir Liam Donaldson asks "what is the right question for Africa?"
Dr Sam Zaramba, former Chair of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, suggests five ways to translate high-level policy into concrete action in Africa.
The Newsletter highlights the work that is being done in the African Region to improve patient safety.
Link to individual articles

African partnerships for patient safety : working for safer health care … together. [1.49 MB]

Status of Blood Safety in the WHO African Region: Report of the 2006 Survey [2.31 MB]

Guide for National Public Health Laboratory Networking [1.01 MB]
Guide for National Public Health Laboratory Networking To Strengthen Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)
Test Version 1.0 September 2008

WHA57.18 Human organ and tissue transplantation [18.42 kB]

WHA40.13 Development of guiding principles for human organ transplants [9.47 kB]

AFR/RC58/6 Strengthening Public Health Laboratories in the WHO African Region [49.42 kB]
AFR/RC58/6 Strengthening Public Health Laboratories in the WHO African Region: A Critical Need for Disease Control

WHA40.26 Global strategy for the prevention and control of AIDS [102.76 kB]

WHA28.72 Utilization and supply of human blood and blood products [14.73 kB]

EB79.R1 Blood and blood products [11.31 kB]

Guide - National Public Health Laboratory Networking to Strengthen Intergrated Disease Surveillance [1.01 MB]

AFR/RC49/12 Health Technology Policy in the African Region [95.33 kB]

AFR/RC44/R15 Selection and Development of Health Technologies at District Level [140.57 kB]