Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems: Managing the Disease Burden

Partnerships and collaboration are key to helping manage the disease burden, which is being directly and indirectly affected by lack of blood in Africa. This is truer than ever in a COVID-19 context, where Africa’s blood services are in some cases collecting up to 80% less blood because of schools being closed, as we get a lot of blood from students, and also because of limits on social gatherings and because we don’t really have a culture of voluntary blood donation. So COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse.