Epidemiological profile of seropositive blood donors at a tertiary care hospital in North India

Seroprevalence of Hiv, Hbv, HCV and Syphilis Among Blood Donors in Kims Blood Bank Hubballi, Karnataka, a Tertiary Care Hospital

“…With a prevalence of 0.26%, India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world [17]. However, its prevalence among sub-continental donors fluctuates through literatures, from 0.02 to 8.5% [18]. For HIV, India is third only to South Africa and Nigeria in terms of the overall number of people living with HIV [33].…”

“…The majority of known cases of post-transfusion hepatitis has been caused by hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) [2]. Prevalence of HBV infection varies geographically between 0.1 and 11.7% [18]. In India, it lingers within 2 to 8% among general population and 1 to 2% among blood donors [19][20][21].…”

Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections among Blood Donors at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Central India

“…Similar findings by Dhruva et al 27 22 We observed a trend of decreased HIV prevalence from 0.09% to 0.04% during 2015-2018 similar to other studies. 24,26,28 Some studies have shown an increasing trend also like one by Sabharwal et al 30 and Patel et al 31 showed an increasing trend of HIV from 2007 to 2011 and 2009 to 2011 respectively.This discordances may be due to the difference in the study population,study period and study areas.…”

“…The overall seroprevalence of 1.43% of various TTI's among apparently healthy adults points to the need for sensitive & stringent screening of all blood donors, public awareness programmes and behaviour change communication to young strata of society to keep them free of these infections. In a study by Koshy et al 24 most of the seropositive donors were in the age group of 18-30 yrs, followed by 31-40 yrs.…”

Seroprevalence of markers of transfusion transmissible infections among blood donors at a tertiary care hospital blood bank: a 5 year retrospective study

“…3 Transfusion transmitted diseases such as HIV 1 and 2, HBV and HCV are among the greatest threats to blood safety for transfusion to the recipients. 4 So transfusion as a main way for blood borne infections continues to cause serious problems in developing countries and less serious in developed countries due to the implementation of advanced techniques for screening of donated blood. 5 The economic cost of failure to control the transmission of the infections includes increased requirements of medical care, high level of dependency and heavy burden on already overstretched health and social services on national economy.…”