Support Project Launched

Financed by Expertise France, the project known by its French acronym as PADOC aims to strengthen the national transfusion system through increasing the technical capacities of some NBTS and blood bank staff as well promoting community mobilisation for blood donation. This will in turn reduce the risk of blood transmissible infections (including HIV, Malaria and Hepatitis). Launched by Pr.

Joseph Mendimi Nkodo, Techinical Adviser Number 2 in the Ministry of Public Health and the representative of the Minister of Public Health on 11 July 2025, the project will run in six pilot towns including Yaounde, Ebolowa, Bertoua, Ngoundere, Garoua and Maroua.

PADOC is an essential lever for the reform of the national transfusion system initiated in 2019 with the creation of the NBTS as the sole operator. Safe Blood for Africa Foundation and the Forum for governance, health and development, the Red Cross and Etablissement Francais du Sang are the technical partners accompanying the NBTS in the implementation of PADOC.