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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A book as broad in scope as this has only been possible thanks to extraordinary support and assistance from many people and organizations. This includes a grant from the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program (no. P019A050018), a visiting researcher award at the Brocher Foundation (Geneva), sabbatical leave from the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and support from the Baker-Ort Chair in International Healthcare Philanthropy at the Indiana University School of Philanthropy at IUPUI.

Among the personnel at blood banks and transfusion services who opened their records and agreed to be interviewed were Jack Nyamongo (Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service), O. W. Mwanda (Nairobi University Medical School), Peter Kataaha, Paul Senyonga, and John Watson-Williams (Uganda Blood Transfusion Services), Esau Nzaro and Aisu Steven (Mulago Hospital Blood Bank), Lamine Diakhaté and Saliou Diop (Centre national de transfusion sanguine, Senegal), Dora Mbanya (Centre hospitalier et universitaire, University of Yaoundé Faculty of Medicine), Juhani Leikola (Finnish Red Cross), Evelyn von Steffen (formerly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva), and Myriam Malengreau (Université catholique de Louvain).

There are numerous archives and libraries around the world whose collections were invaluable for this book. They were graciously made available to me by many people with a great deal of patience. They include Helen Pugh and Emily Oldfield (British Red Cross Museum and Archives), Dirk Schoonbaert (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp), Luc de Munck (Flemish section of the Belgian Red Cross), Pierre Dandoy (Archives africaines, Service publique fédéral Affaires étrangères, Brussels), Stéphane Kraxner (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Aline Pueyo (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Marseille), Margrit Schenker (Swiss Red Cross), Grant Mitchell (IFRC), Sophie Chapuis (International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva), Tomas Allen (WHO Library, Geneva), and Maria G. N. Musoke (Makerere University Medical Library, Kampala).

Several colleagues have offered encouragement as well as patience as this project was brought to a conclusion. They include Patrick Aeberhard, Ernie Drucker, Bob Einterz, Ellen Einterz, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Didier Gondola, Holly Hanson, Guillaume Lachenal, Preston Marx, and Cees Smit-Sibinga. Their help is largely responsible for both the instigation and relevance of this work. Any errors or questionable judgments are entirely my own.

Staff and research assistants at IUPUI—Jennifer Broome, Kelly Gascoine, Judi Izuka-Campbell, and Jennifer Smedley—contributed time and energy well beyond normal expectations of job descriptions. Jim Webb and Gillian Berchowitz at Ohio University Press, plus anonymous readers’ comments, have shown an understanding and appreciation that have been quite gratifying.

Finally, but foremost, it is a pleasure to publicly thank my wife, Laurie, for her patience and “adventures” involved in bringing this book to a conclusion.