Providing Techincal Assistance for the Rapid Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services in Selected Countries in Africa and the Caribbean

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Providing Techincal Assistance for the Rapid Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services in Selected Countries in Africa and the Caribbean: CDC?s Procurement and Grants Office has published a program announcement entitled, ?Providing Technical Assistance for the Rapid Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services in Selected Countries in Africa and the Caribbean Under the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief?. The program is open to public non-profit organizations, private non-profit organizations, universities, and faith-based organizations. Applicants must be able to document five years past experience in blood banking. The purpose of the program is to provide technical assistance to the Ministries of Health and National Transfusion Services in the following countries: Botswana, Cote d?Ivoire, Ethiopia, Haiti, Guyana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. This program will rapidly develop and implement a national safe blood program in each country with demonstrable results within the first year of the Emergency Plan. The application deadline is March 1, 2004, and the estimated funding date is March 25, 2004.