Blood Safety

Pakistani injection drug users twice as likely to donate blood

Published in Blood Weekly, July 10th, 2003

Thirty percent of injection drug users in Pakistan are paid to donate blood, which could contaminate the global blood supply and increase the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C, according to a study in three Pakistani cites conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The study was published in the June 2003 issue of the Journal of Urban Health.

Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology and international health in the School of Public Health, said, "We found that injection drug users were twice as likely to donate blood as non-injectors, which is not surprising since...

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