Blood Banking (Screening)

PHS Issues Guidelines for p24 Antigen Testing and Counseling

Published in Blood Weekly, April 8th, 1996

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidelines for the use of p24 antigen testing.

Blood donor screening for p24 antigen is expected to reduce by about 25 percent annually the number of HIV infected donations that otherwise would have gone undetected. In August 1995 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that all donated blood and plasma be screened for HIV-1 p24 antigen, effective within three months of a licensed test.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, has published the Public Health Service (PHS) guidelines for p24 antigen testing and donor counseling ("U.S....

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