Cameroon: Officials Campaign Against Taboos to Encourage People to Donate Blood

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Blood banks in Cameroon are usually close to empty due to widely held taboos against blood donation. Officials in the central African country are trying to convince people to move past those beliefs amid an increased demand for blood and blood products in hospitals and on the front lines where soldiers are fighting separatists and Islamist militants. The effort comes ahead of World Blood Donor Day, observed on June 14.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Tags: Cameroon Central Africa Health and Medicine West Africa Source Type: news