HIV/AIDS

Investigators at University of Cambridge, Blood Center release new data on HIV/AIDS

Published in Blood Weekly, March 18th, 2010

"A significantly higher level of safety between nonremunerated volunteer and replacement donor blood is assumed. This is supported by global data without stratifying between genuine replacement and paid donors, for first-time or repeat volunteer, or according to age," scientists writing in the journal Transfusion report.

"In 2008, first-time volunteer and replacement donors were identified, and confirmed human immunodeficiency virus antibody (anti-HIV), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), and hepatitis C virus antibody (anti-HCV)-positive screening results were collated. Data were analyzed according to age and sex between the two types of donors. In 6640...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-03-18)

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