Risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus among blood donors in Cameroon: evidence for the design of an Africa‐specific donor history questionnaire

Tagny, Claude Tayou; Nguefack‐Tsague, Georges; Fopa, Diderot; Ashu, Celestin; Tante, Estel; Donfack, Olivier Sontsa; Mbanya, Dora; Laperche, Syria; Murphy, Edward L.

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“…Indeed, the challenge of getting safer blood units is not only in recruitment and retention of VNRBD but also in donor deferral as several blood services had not implemented a donor health questionnaire in 2012. High prevalences of TTI were still observed at some services in this survey may be related to a lack of optimal donor deferral based on questionnaires incorporating locally appropriate risk factors . This study therefore fills the gap in knowledge on blood safety indicators between 2012 and 2017.…”

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Updated characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products in 11 French‐speaking African countries

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Updated characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products in 11 French‐speaking African countries

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“…Motivations and deterrents to blood donation include setting-specific social and cultural factors. 17,18 These factors may be poorly understood in LMIC, leading to inadequate design of the necessary research to promote donation, and sub-optimal donor recruitment and retention strategies. Country-level assessments useful for defining future research are beginning to appear in the peer-reviewed literature.…”

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“…Participants emphasized that donor recruitment and donation processes that work well in HICs cannot simply be “transferred to” or “adopted by” LMICs. Motivations and deterrents to blood donation include setting‐specific social and cultural factors . These factors may be poorly understood in LMICs, leading to inadequate design of the necessary research to promote donation and suboptimal donor recruitment and retention strategies.…”

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Addressing gaps in international blood availability and transfusion safety in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a NHLBI workshop

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In April 2017, a workshop sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Blood Diseases and Resources, and the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science was held to discuss blood availability and transfusion safety in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The purpose of the workshop was to identify research opportunities for implementation science (IS) to improve the availability of safe blood and blood components and transfusion practices in LMICs. IS describes the late stages of the translational research spectrum and studies optimal and sustainable strategies to deliver proven-effective interventions. Regional working groups were formed to focus on opportunities and challenges in East Africa, Central/West Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Western Pacific Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. The need for an "adequate supply of safe blood" emerged as the major overriding theme. Among the regional working groups, common cross-cutting themes were evident. The majority of research questions, priorities, and strategies fell into the categories of blood availability, blood transfusion safety, appropriate use of blood, quality systems, health economics and budgeting, and training and education in IS. The workshop also brought into focus inadequate country-level data that can be used as the basis for IS initiatives. A mixed approach of needs assessment and targeted interventions with sufficient evidence base to move toward sustainment is an appropriate next step for blood availability and transfusion safety research in LMICs.

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“…Another study was performed in Romania, in which the results indicated 17.5% contribution of women to blood donation [9]. Moreover, the results of studies conducted in Ethiopia (12.1%), Netherlands (18.7%), China (18.6%), Iraq (0.3%), Qatar (2.6%), Turkey (11%), and Cameroon (19.5%) have presented that women have a small contribution to blood donation [10111213141516]. Various reasons can justify this low participation rate of women.…”

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The increasing trend of blood donation in Iran

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BackgroundThis is the first study on the blood donation trend in Iran at a national level. We report different characteristics of blood donation such as demographic status, donor type, donation trend, and geographical distribution of blood donation in Iran between 2003 and 2017.MethodsThis study used data registered in the donor vigilance part of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and ArcMap GIS version 10.2 software. A P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.ResultsBased on the study results, blood donation in Iran reached >2 million units in 2017; moreover, it is predicted that Iran will achieve >29 donations per 1,000 population in 2022. The proportion of regular and repeated donors increased from 77% in 2013 to 87% in 2017. The average blood donation rate in seven provinces was higher than the national average, and the average growth rate of their blood donation per population was positive.ConclusionThe results of the current study showed that there is a recent increasing trend toward blood donation in Iran. Furthermore, the largest share of donations is related to regular donors. The increasing proportion of regular and repeated donors has led to the improvement in the quality and consequently health level of donated blood.

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Risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus among blood donors in Cameroon: evidence for the design of an Africa‐specific donor history questionnaire

Abstract: We identified both typical and novel HIV risk factors among Cameroonian blood donors. An adapted DHQ and score that discriminate HIV-negative donors may be an inexpensive means of reducing transfusion-transmitted HIV through predonation screening.

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Updated characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products in 11 French‐speaking African countries

Updated characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products in 11 French‐speaking African countries

Addressing gaps in international blood availability and transfusion safety in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a NHLBI workshop

The increasing trend of blood donation in Iran

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