This follows an uproar last year and an order from the Minister of Health that race no longer be used as part of the system to determine if donated blood was safe for use.

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"That will disappear totally," Prof Anthon Heyns told Sapa ahead of a press conference.

The service spent the last year selecting new tests and importing equipment necessary for the new system.

It also significantly reduces the window period of infections for detecting the HI virus.

Race would still form part of the questionnaire given to potential donors, but this would only be as part of the service's aims of representing the demographic of the country in its donations, Heyns said. – (Sapa) Visit our Blood donation: holiday crisis? for more information.

September 2005
 

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