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Since then, there has been substantial investment in blood safety but little is known about progress made in the region.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This multicentre cross\u2010sectional study describes characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products and compares results with previous data. A web\u2010based questionnaire collected data of 2016 from 38 blood facilities in 11 French\u2010speaking countries. Data were analysed according to type of blood services and compared to similar studies conducted in 2009 and 2012.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study included data on 572 933 donations from 366 844 donors. Compared to 2012, there was an increase in the median proportion of voluntary nonremunerated blood donation (+22%) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7004), and a reduction from 2\u00b71 to 0\u00b79 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b701), from 10\u00b73 to 6\u00b77 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b700), from 3\u00b72 to 1\u00b73 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7006) and from 1 to 0\u00b74 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b703) in median seroprevalences of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">HIV<\/jats:styled-content>,<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"> HBV<\/jats:styled-content>,<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"> HCV<\/jats:styled-content> and syphilis, respectively. The median proportion of blood orders fulfilled decreased (\u221218\u00b72%) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7001). The number of technical staff per 1000 donations ranged from 1 to 54 with hospital\u2010based blood transfusion services having 12\u2010fold more staff than National and Regional services.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Several indicators have improved in Francophone Africa Blood services during the last 5 years and national and regional services likely have better indicators than hospital\u2010based services. 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