Mr Tonderai Mapako
E-mail: mapakot@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone:
Fax: +263 4 707820
Mobile:
Executive Officer
Research, Development & Data Management
National Blood Service
Zimbabwe
P. O. Box A101
Avondale
Harare
Zimbabwe
You can download the Flyer and Prospectus for the upcoming IFBLS congress to be held in Nairobi, 6-10 June, 2010. The Congress will focus on communicable diseases, with the main theme "The role of Medical Laboratory Sciences in management of global health burden with emphasis on HIV / AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis".
Following the GAD meeting in Nairobi and the selection of new council, the new council met for its first sitting on 13 and 14 November 2009 at Birchwood Hotel, Gauteng. The meeting was well attended and a report for members attention will be posted on the website soon.
A report back meeting on task forces working on the four themes was held at Birchwood Hotel, Gauteng. A report of the meeting will be posted on the website soon.
The Congress was successfully held from 15 to 18 November at Birchwood Hotel, Gauteng. This year’s congress was committed to showcasing the latest projects and most interesting findings of blood banking and blood transfusion practitioners in South Africa . Under the pertinent theme “Sustainable Safe Blood: Mastering Change”, the 31st South African National Blood Transfusion Congress was dedicated to presenting up-to-date information and research findings in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine practices.
For more information contact:
Tammy Duncan Anderson
Conference Co-ordinator
Tel:
Email: tammy@soafrica.com
Or consult the website: www.sabloodcongress.org
The 5th AfSBT Congress was successfully held in Nairobi, Kenya from 25 to 27 June 2009. The reports for the congress are being added to the webpage "Nairobi Congress Reports".
Africa Society for Blood Transfusion meeting of stakeholders to establish training and education systems for blood services in Africa was successfully held on 24 June 2009 in Nairobi. The summary report for this meeting can be accessed here
The AfSBT General Assembly of Delegates (GAD) was held on 27 June 2009 in Nairobi. The new council was elected. Two major changes on the governance structure of AfSBT were approved namely ( a) the formation of four Regional Chapters of AfSBT (b) the establishment of an Executive Arm of AfSBT to be appointed by the Council. All reports of the AfSBT GAD can be accessed here
As you no doubt have noticed the website of the AfSBT has been redesigned. This new website is the first in a series of steps that will completely change the focus and image of our Society as mirrored by the website. This is therefore only the first steps and the website will be enhanced over time.
In order to gain international support the website will be based on the operational national blood services in African countries. This can only be achieved by increasing the number of African blood services with corporate membership of the AfSBT. The country/regional chapters will be linked to the website via their blood services. Representatives of the blood services will send us news to be published on the website. We have listed some African blood services and contact names and details. We hope that the contact persons will in time provide us with more details of their Services so that we can have a comprehensive picture of the status of blood transfusion in Africa. Namibia has done this already and their information is a good illustration of what we want to achieve. The website will take into account language differences and the intention is soon to duplicate French and English materials.
The ultimate focus of the website will be to gather available resources on one platform and site. The website could be developed as a platform for web based training with the focus on appropriate material and courses for African blood services. The blood transfusion journal of the AfSBT, Africa Sanguine, could also be published electronically and distributed via the website.
The webmaster of the AfSBT website is Mr Tonderai Mapako. Tonderai is the Executive Officer – Research, Development and Data Management of the National Blood Service Zimbabwe. If you do have any queries or want to submit information for inclusion on the website please contact Tonderai. His contact details are given in the right column of this page.
Last Update: January 2010