Blood Safety
HIV prevalence in donated blood reduced after enhanced education and selection process
Published in Blood Weekly, March 30th, 2006
According to a study from South Africa, "The South African National Blood Service collects more than 700,000 units of blood annually from a population in which 11.4% is infected with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1).
"The prevalence of HIV-1 in blood donations increased to 0.26% (1:385) in 1998, indicating that a significant number of window-period infective units were entering the blood supply (risk 3.4/100 000)."
"To determine whether the implementation of anew donor selection policy and educational program introduced...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-03-30)
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