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Blood and Injection Safety chapter 99.1 Key Findings• Among all respondents aged 15‐64 years, 2.3% reported donating blood in the yearbefore the survey; almost half of donors (48.3%) reported donating in response to arequest from a blood transfusion service.• Among adults who reported ever receiving a blood transfusion, 7.0% were HIVinfected.This figure was not significantly different from persons who did notreceive a blood transfusion (7.1%).• An estimated 33.1% of adults reported that they received at least one medicalinjection in the year before the survey. Though HIV prevalence was significantlyhigher among both women and men who reported medical injections in the pastyear compared to women and men who did not, causality cannot be determined andfurther adjustments are needed to control for possible confounders.• The use of clean needle packets for medical injections appeared to be widelyadopted in clinical settings.9.2 IntroductionAssuring a safe and adequate the blood supply is the priority of the <strong>Kenya</strong> <strong>National</strong> BloodTransfusion Service (KNBTS), which has evolved from individual hospital‐based blood programs to anational network of regional blood collection, processing and distribution to transfusing facilities thatprovides coverage for much of the nation. However, coverage is not 100%. There are still somefamily/replacement donors (that is, persons who donate at the request of family or friends) in theKNBTS system and some hospitals continue to operate independently, such as Aga Khan, a privateteaching hospital in Nairobi which has large labour and delivery services. Donations from volunteersand family/replacement donors are all subject to the same testing by the KNBTS and the quality ofhospital programs ranges from basic to international standards with external quality assurancesystems.In November 2001 <strong>Kenya</strong> introduced its first blood safety policy and in January <strong>2007</strong> established<strong>National</strong> Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services. KNBTS is structured to collect, screenand distribute blood from regular, voluntary, non‐remunerated (that is, non‐paid) donors based oninternational standards of quality management, testing algorithms and standardised procedures.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 163

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