Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus among healthy voluntary first-time blood donors in Kolkata

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
BK Das ◽  
Subhra Aditya ◽  
PK Datta ◽  
BK Gayen ◽  
SumitKumar Chakrovorty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C among blood donors at a tertiary care hospital in North India

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1671
Author(s):  
Kanwaljit Kaur ◽  
Ramneek Locham ◽  
Smriti Kaur Aulakh ◽  
Rajni Bassi ◽  
Jiteshwar Singh Pannu
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
North India ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Donor Pool ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
First Time

Background: The prevalence of transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs), in blood transfusion services are a major problem across blood banks and hospitals in the world. In, India, the effort to provide safe transfusion to patients is a heightened problem for various reasons. In this study, seroprevalence of Transfusion transmitted infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) was investigated in a pool of blood donors.Methods: The data collection was carried out for a period of two years from, January 2017 to December 2018, and total sample size of donors was 38,142. We studied the frequency, gender wise distribution, donor (first time vs repeat) wise distribution and yearly trend of seroprevalence of TTIs in blood units donated at our hospital.Results: A total of 37,457 (98.2%) males and 685 (1.79%) females donated blood during the study period. The results suggest that among the blood donors, the prevalence of HCV was highest (0.77%) followed by HBV (0.46%) and HIV (0.13%). Seropositivity was found to be more in first-time donors (0.83%) as compared to repeat-donors (0.52%). Seropositivity was found to be more among males (1.35%) than females (0.01%). The discussion suggests underlying reasons for the results along-with future direction of research.Conclusions: The need of the hour is to encourage repeat voluntary blood donors in order to maintain safe supply of blood and its components to donors. Efforts should be made to include females in the blood donor pool by increasing awareness and through dedicated efforts to improve female health and nutrition.

scholarly journals Sero-epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, and syphilis infections among first-time blood donors in Edéa, Cameroon

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. e832-e837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Jacques N. Noubiap ◽  
Walburga Yvonne A. Joko ◽  
Jobert Richie N. Nansseu ◽  
Ulrich Gaël Tene ◽  
Christian Siaka
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Virus Hepatitis ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Prevalence and risk factors of Human Immunodeficiency virus, Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus and Syphilis infections among nonprofessional blood donors in Chittagong, Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Zobaidul Alam ◽  
Md Amayan Hossain ◽  
Mahmud A Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Virus Hepatitis ◽  
Syphilis Infection ◽  
B Virus ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus

Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Syphilis infection are the major public health problem, alarming the most developing countries like Bangladesh. These studies determined the prevalence rate and risk factors of HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Syphilis among nonprofessional blood donors in multiple blood transfusion center of Chittagong. Information was collected by questionnaire to find out the relationship of HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis infection with age, sex, socioeconomic status, residence and religious believes. The sero-prevalence of HIV, HBsAg (HBV), anti-HCV (HCV), VDRL (Syphilis) among the non-professional blood donors were 00.00%, 4.88%, 0.92%, and 0.70% respectively. So, the highest prevalence rate was HBsAg and the lowest was HIV. We didn’t find more than one positive case in the same blood sample. The prevalence of HBsAg among the study population, students (120/6) were 5.00%, service holders (73/3) were 4.11%, businessmen (40/4) were 10%, housewives (14/0) were 00.00%, others (farmers, immigrant workers) (40/1) were 2.50%. The highest prevalence of HBsAg was due to illiteracy and unsafe sexual behaviors.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2015, 1(3): 518-525

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