TY - BOOK ID - 77896946 TI - The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa PY - 2013 SN - 0821444530 9780821444535 9780821420379 0821420372 PB - Athens, Ohio DB - UniCat KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - Blood banks KW - Blood KW - Banked blood KW - Blood transfusion service KW - Blood transfusion services KW - Tissue banks KW - Bloodmobiles KW - Body fluids KW - Fear of blood KW - Epidemiology. KW - Risk management KW - Transfusion KW - History. KW - Transportation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896946 AB - This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine. This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a "royal road" for microorganisms, and thus played a central ER -