Prevalence of Hiv Infection Among Blood Donors at Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

BACKGROUND Blood transfusion is a life-saving measure used in the field of medicine. Transfusion medicine has great public health importance. The screening of transfusion transmitted infections is mandatory in blood donors for the safety of recipient. The National blood transfusion council has recommended voluntary non-remunerated blood donors. Aim-The present study was done to retrospectively analyse the prevalence of HIV infection in blood donors from RESULTSA total of 6982 blood donors were screened, of which 6881 (98.5%) were males and 101 (1.44%) were females. Replacement donations of 6770 (96.96%) represented the majority, whereas only 212 (3.03%) donations were from the voluntary donors. CONCLUSIONOur study showed the prevalence of HIV to be 0.071% in our tertiary care teaching hospital.