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In 2019 America stopped writing cheques as part of a long-running programme to wean African countries off their dependence on aid for their blood services.
2019年，美國不再為這項長期計劃提供資金，目的是讓非洲國家擺脫對血液服務援助的依賴。
It had successfully done so in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania, where governments picked up the full tab for their blood banks between 2014 and 2016.
它在埃塞俄比亞和坦桑尼亞等國成功地做到了這一點，這些國家的政府在2014年至2016年期間承擔了本國血庫的全部費用。
But in Kenya the government's share of spending on transfusion centers declined.
但在肯尼亞，政府在血液中心的支出有所下降。
Money problems were exacerbated when covid-19 struck in 2020.
2020年新冠肺炎爆發后，資金問題進一步加劇。
With schools closed, blood drives cancelled and people urged to avoid mixing, donations slumped.
由于學校停課，獻血活動取消，人們被敦促保持社交距離，獻血量大幅下降。
Between July 2019 and June 2020 Kenya's transfusion centers collected just 164,000 units, against an estimated need of 470,000-1m units.
2019年7月至2020年6月，肯尼亞的輸血中心僅收集了16.4萬份血液，而預計需要的血液量是47萬至100萬份。
Yet the crisis also brought an emergency infusion of cash from the World Bank.
然而，這場危機也導致世界銀行對其進行了緊急注資。
Of $50m in concessional money allocated to help Kenya battle COVID, $10m was earmarked for improving its blood-transfusion infrastructure, including 15 new blood banks (taking the total to 45) and frequent blood drives.
在分配給肯尼亞用于抗擊新冠肺炎的5000萬美元優惠資金中，有1000萬美元專門用于改善其輸血基礎設施，包括新建15個血庫（使總血庫數量達到45個）以及舉行更多獻血活動。
It is paying off.
這些付出得到了回報。
In the 12 months to June 2022, Kenya collected 348,000 units of blood.
截至2022年6月的12個月里，肯尼亞收集了34.8萬個單位的血液。
However, Kenya's reliance on concessional funding still leaves its blood banks in a precarious position: another sudden cut could once again leave Kenya anaemic, though with luck new blood donors such as Ms Mwinyiusi will become regular givers.
然而，由于肯尼亞對優惠資金的依賴，其血庫仍處于岌岌可危的境地：資金的突然減少可能會讓肯尼亞再次“貧血”，幸運的是，有姆溫尤西等新的獻血者決定開始定期獻血。
"The good thing about donating blood," she says, "is that we are helping reduce the number of people suffering from high to low."
“獻血的好處是，”她說，“我們能夠讓更多人擺脫血液短缺帶來的病痛折磨。”
