Facility-level blood safety

Percentage of health facilities providing blood transfusion that meet requirements for safe and sufficient blood transfusion

What it measures / Ce qui est mesuré / Qué mide / Что он измеряет

This indicator assesses the effectiveness of policies and programmes to enable health facilities to have sufficient and safe supply of blood for transfusion.

Rationale / Fondement / Justificación / Обоснование

While risk of HIV transmission from unsafe blood transfusion has decreased globally, it remains an important programme priority in some countries.

Numerator / Numérateur / Numerador / Числитель

Number of health facilities providing blood transfusion with tracer items on the day of the assessment by the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) survey indicators index

Denominator / Dénominateur / Denominador / Знаменатель

Number of surveyed health facilities providing blood transfusion

Method of measurement / Méthode d’évaluation / Método de medición / Метод измерения

For the numerator and denominator. Health facility survey (SARA)

Disaggregation / Ventilation / Desglose / Разбивка данных