Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 4766
Country/Region: Mozambique
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Ministry of Health - Mozambique
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Host Country Government Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $200,000

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Blood Safety (HMBL): $200,000

This activity is also linked with activity sheets 8194 and 9004.

To strengthen the blood supply and ensure blood safety in Mozambique, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MoH) National Blood Transfusion Program (NBTP) is proposing to conduct the following activities in FY07:

1) Rehabilitate 2 provincial level blood banks, which will provide reference services and blood units to smaller peripheral blood banks and allow staff to participate in Quality Assurance (QA) activities;

2) Initiate QA activities in collaboration with the Mozambican National Health Institute laboratory and technical assistance, provided by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB);

3) Conduct training sessions on donor services, donor evaluation, donor registration/identification, phlebotomy and blood collection on mobiles/camps, blood component preparation and infectious disease testing;

4) Continue supervision visits conducted by central level NBTP staff to blood banks at central, provincial and rural hospitals, aiming at supervision visits conducted in all 11 provinces, with all central, all provincial and at least 2 rural hospital blood banks per province being visited during FY07;

5) Train and support newly recruited blood donor mobilization staff, and continue support for Information Education Communication (IEC) interventions to educate donors and promote voluntary blood donation; and

6) Recruit and train biologists (currently two in place, with nine additional biologists to be recruited, i.e. one per province) for provincial level blood bank supervision and management.