Partnerships and collaboration are key to helping manage the disease burden, which is being directly and indirectly affected by lack of blood in Africa. This is truer than ever in a COVID-19 context, where Africa’s blood services are in some cases collecting up to 80% less blood because of schools being closed, as we get a lot of blood from students, and also because of limits on social gatherings and because we don’t really have a culture of voluntary blood donation. So COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse.