Challenges in setting up an accreditation system in Africa - what can be learnt.

The article focuses on the challenges in developing an accreditation system for blood transfusion standards in Africa. It states that a step-wise process was used by the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) to address its blood services. It mentions that the National Bioproducts Institute (NBI) provides sufficient funding for the step-wise accreditation programme. It says that the pilot site testing was decided to take place in the Anglophone Southern African Development Community (SADC). It also considers multilingualism in the continent and communication as other challenges in the programme development.