Prevalence of HIV seropositivity in blood donors of Gujarat
Journal Title: IP Journal of Diagnostic Pathology and Oncology - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction Lack of health education and poor awareness leads to increase the number of source of infections in the community and resulted in the higher percentage of transfusiontransmitted HIV in India Screening of TTIs among blood donors helpful to observe the direction and prevalence of seropositivity of HIV among healthy blood donorsObjective To detect the HIV seropositivity among healthy blood donors in Gujarat Materials and Methods A retrospective crosssectional study was conducted at Blood Bank of Gujarat among all voluntary and replacement donors Total 7935 donors were screened over the period of year 2010 to 2017 according the guideline of WHO Results Blood units were collected from replacement donors 541 and voluntary blood donors 459 Almost 974 were male donors and remaining were female donors Around 0088 blood donors were found seropositive for HIV Highest incidence of HIV seropositivity was found in year 2016 2017 Conclusion replacement donors were higher in number than the voluntary donors In developing countries availability of safe transfusion of blood blood products is the main challenge and on the health sector of developing countries Sometimes replacement donors bury their medical history to donate blood for their relatives which indicate that blood safety depends mainly on right and decent reply of the screening questions Emphasis should be given to increased awareness and change in attitude of community regarding blood donation Blood camps should be increased to encourage the people for voluntary blood donation Keywords Blood Donors HIV Seropositivity Replacement Donors Transfusion Transmitted Infection TTIs Voluntary Donors
Authors and Affiliations
Tarun P. Kotadiya, Baldev H. Patel
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