PIP: On April 7, 2000, the WHO launched the new blood-safety campaign, which aims to increase the availability of safe blood in developing countries. The organization issued facts and figures on the state of the world's blood supply to spur governments to establish national transfusion systems. However, critics reported that the approach is unworkable in the very regions that it aims to protect. Jean Emmanuel, WHO director of blood safety and clinical technology, claimed that efficacy of transfusion services depends on national coordination and government support. On the other hand, Josef DeCosas, director of the Southern African AIDS Training Program in Zimbabwe, states that the success of organized blood-transfusion services in Zimbabwe depends on the network of roads and telephones and the availability of vehicles and fuel. In other African countries, these organized central blood-transfusion services take an enormous chunk of the health care budget. Furthermore, he stated that the central blood-bank scheme of the WHO would work for only a short while and would eventually fall since it does not complement the rest of the health care system, road system and electric supply.