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Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia

BACKGROUND: Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are infections which are common in some communities in Southern Africa. It is important to screen blood donations for these infections. ME...

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Autores principales: Mavenyengwa, Rooyen T, Mukesi, Munyaradzi, Chipare, Israel, Shoombe, Esra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-424
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author Mavenyengwa, Rooyen T
Mukesi, Munyaradzi
Chipare, Israel
Shoombe, Esra
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Chipare, Israel
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description BACKGROUND: Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are infections which are common in some communities in Southern Africa. It is important to screen blood donations for these infections. METHODS: This is a retrospective study which involved reviewing of previous blood donation records for the year 2012 in Namibia. The records were analyzed to determine the prevalence of HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B and C among blood donations with regard to gender, age and geographical region of the donors. RESULTS: The findings indicated a significantly low prevalence of HIV, syphilis, HBsAg and anti-Hepatitis C among the blood donations. A low infection rate of 1.3% by any of the four tested TTIs was found among the blood donations given by the donor population in Namibia in 2012. CONCLUSION: The blood donations given by the donor population in Namibia has a low infection rate with the HIV, syphilis, HBsAg and anti-HCV. A strict screening regime must continue to be used as the infections are still present albeit in small numbers.
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spelling pubmed-40127132014-05-08 Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia Mavenyengwa, Rooyen T Mukesi, Munyaradzi Chipare, Israel Shoombe, Esra BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are infections which are common in some communities in Southern Africa. It is important to screen blood donations for these infections. METHODS: This is a retrospective study which involved reviewing of previous blood donation records for the year 2012 in Namibia. The records were analyzed to determine the prevalence of HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B and C among blood donations with regard to gender, age and geographical region of the donors. RESULTS: The findings indicated a significantly low prevalence of HIV, syphilis, HBsAg and anti-Hepatitis C among the blood donations. A low infection rate of 1.3% by any of the four tested TTIs was found among the blood donations given by the donor population in Namibia in 2012. CONCLUSION: The blood donations given by the donor population in Namibia has a low infection rate with the HIV, syphilis, HBsAg and anti-HCV. A strict screening regime must continue to be used as the infections are still present albeit in small numbers. BioMed Central 2014-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4012713/ /pubmed/24884633 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-424 Text en Copyright © 2014 Mavenyengwa et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chipare, Israel
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Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title_full Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title_fullStr Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title_short Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
title_sort prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis b and c in blood donations in namibia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012713/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-424
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