The impact of donor selection on blood safety in Iran

Update on Transmission Modes of Hepatitis C Virus Among Volunteer Iranian Blood Donors: Analysis of a Matched Case-Control Study by Penalized Conditional Logistic Regression

“…It is possible that blood donors pay less attention to the educational measures introduced by IBTO. Although donor selection seems to be effective in Iran (52), increasing the knowledge of prospective blood donors regarding the routes of HCV transmission and conducting more accurate interviews by physicians can lead to more successful donor selection and high blood safety. Finally, the present results can be applied in the surveillance of HCV infection in Iran to prevent this disease in the general population.…”

Risk Behavior among Ineligible Blood Donors in a Blood Transfusion Center (Burkina Faso)

“…Several studies [8][9][10][11] have shown that certain behaviors are at increased risk of contamination by severe infectious diseases transmissible by blood. In Africa, seropositivity to hepatitis B and C viruses is very high in blood donors [12][13][14].…”

Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease

“…It may lead to transmit HCV to patients receiving multiple transfusions, such as those who have thallassemia and hemophilia. Developed countries and several developing countries, like Iran, have a filtering system to exclude high risk donors and also proper screening program to detect hepatitis B and C, and HIV in donated bloods [7].…”

“…The major burden from HCV infection is due to complication of chronic HCV infection [5,6]. Because of existence of risk factors in receiving HCV, such as unscreened blood donationunsterile tattooing, IV drug abusing, unsafe sex working and also lack of effective HCV vaccine, new cases of hepatitis are still detected [7][8][9][10][11].…”