Publications by authors named "G Opondo"
Background: During the past decade, developing countries have received limited support for blood safety programmes. The Kenya Ministry of Health did a collaborative multicentre assessment to establish the risk of HIV transmission by transfusion in Kenya, to promote awareness of blood safety issues in this country with a mature HIV epidemic, and to identify methods to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by blood transfusion in Kenya.
Methods: For 12 weeks, from April to July 1994, we collected information and blood samples from all blood donors, and pretransfusion samples were collected from all recipients in six government hospitals in Kenya.