HIV/AIDS Risk Factors
Studies in the area of HIV/AIDS risk factors reported from Canadian Blood Services
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 12th, 2007
A report, "Current incidence and estimated residual risk of transfusion-transmitted infections in donations made to Canadian Blood Services," is newly published data in Transfusion. "New testing methods such as nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT) and chemiluminescent serologic assays have been introduced, more precise estimates for infectious window periods are available, and a new method for estimating the residual risk (RR) of transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) has been developed. Thus, available RR estimates for Canada need to be updated Incidence rates for known TTI markers were determined for all allogeneic whole-blood donations made to Canadian Blood Services between 2001...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-03-12)
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