Knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission and screening in United States blood donors

Sharma, Usha; Schreiber, George B.; Glynn, Simone A.; Nass, Catharie C.; Higgins, Martha; Tu, Yongling; Bethel, Jim; Williams, Alan E.

doi:10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41111341.x

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“…However, other motivators, including response to a direct appeal and self-interest, played greater or lesser roles in various demographic and donor status subgroups. Knowledge about HIV pertaining to blood safety was lower among Brazilian blood donors when compared to other populations (Sharma et al 2001), and lower degrees of HIV knowledge were associated with HIV test-seeking.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…However, our donors were less knowledgeable about the HIV window phase than donors in the US (Sharma et al 2001). The findings in this study may help Brazilian blood bank regulators to develop guidelines for blood donor deferral, or public health officials to develop educational program to enhance blood donor's knowledge about sexual and blood-borne disease.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…We developed donor motivation scales based on a priori hypotheses guided by previously tested questions among blood donors (Glynn et al 2002;Sharma et al 2001) and corroborated by factor analysis. Three scales for donor motivation were identified: altruism, self-interest, and direct appeal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…After providing written informed consent, donors completed the self-administered, structured Portuguese questionnaire including approximately 30 items adapted from a previous survey of blood donors (Glynn et al 2002;Sharma et al 2001). The instrument included demographic characteristics, reasons for blood donation, HIV/AIDS knowledge, and behavioral risk factors for HIV.…”

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations Among Blood Donors in São Paulo, Brazil

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Recruiting safe, volunteer blood donors requires understanding motivations for donating and knowledge and attitudes about HIV. We surveyed 1,600 persons presenting for blood donation at a large blood bank in São Paulo, Brazil using a self-administered, structured questionnaire, and classified motivations into three domains as well as categorizing persons by HIV test-seeking behavior. Motivations, in descending order, and their significant associations were: "altruism": female gender, volunteer donor and repeat donor status; "direct appeal": female gender, repeat donor status and age 21-50 years; "self-interest": male gender, age under 20 years, first-time donor status and lower education. HIV test-seekers were more likely to give incorrect answers regarding HIV risk behavior and blood donation and the ability of antibody testing to detect recent HIV infections. Altruism is the main motivator for blood donation in Brazil; other motivators were associated with specific demographic subgroups. HIV test-seeking might be reduced by educational interventions.

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“…13 Such experiences are very encouraging for those in charge of organizing blood donation. Confidence level between blood donors and physicians who perform clinical screening before blood donation has been identified as a key factor for perception of risk of HIV infection.…”

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Behavior Assessment of Blood Donors Facing the Risk of HIV Infection, Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire, 2001-2002

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JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

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Despite precautions taken to guarantee blood safety, in the National Blood Transfusion Center (CNTS) of Abidjan, about 30 regular blood donors are detected with HIV seroconversion each year, two-thirds of them men. A survey through face-to-face interviews was carried out at the CNTS of Abidjan from September 2001 to March 2002 among HIV-positive and HIV-negative regular blood donors, informed about their serologic status. HIV-negative regular blood donors informed about their serologic status since a median time of 67 months (n = 50) disclosed more risky behaviors such as multiple sexual partners (68%) than HIV-positive blood donors informed about their status (n = 112) since a median time of 35 months (41%) (P < 0.001). Condoms were systematically used by 17% of HIV-negative blood donors and 55% of HIV-positive blood donors (P < 0.001). Enhanced counseling and awareness could reduce in the future the number of cases of seroconversion among regular blood donors and improve their subsequent behavior. Blood donors who have unprotected sex with partners of unknown HIV serologic status and especially with casual partners are strongly exposed to HIV transmission and should be discouraged to continue giving blood, after adequate counseling.

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