Transfusion-transmissible infection surveillance among blood donors in Southwest Ethiopia: A six years retrospective study

Transfusion-Transmissible Infections among Voluntary Blood Donors at Debre Tabor Blood Bank, North West Ethiopia: A Three Years Retrospective Study

“…From the total voluntary blood donors, male have the higher contribution, constitute around two third. The finding was comparable with studies done in Ethiopian and sub-Saharan Africa [14][15][16] and this might be due to knowledge and attitude difference between the two sex, due to physiologic difference (menstruation cycle and birth related issues) that, females were less participate in voluntary blood donation. Despite the fact that males were more in the donor pool of this study, females were comparatively high when compared with female involvement in blood donation in other studies in Ethiopia and Nigeria [17,18].…”

“…The other finding of the study is on HCV and the prevalence of HCV among the collected blood units was 0.68%. which is comparable with a study done in Eritrea [15], Lower as compared to a study done Wollaita Sodo, Ethiopia [14] and higher as compared to a study done in south east Ethiopia [16]. The current study also identified that, the prevalence of Syphilis among the collected blood units was 0.74%, which is lower as compared to a study done in Wolliata Sodo, Ethiopia [14] but higher as compared to studies done in South east Ethiopia and Eritrea [15,16].…”

“…This might also be due to the actual differences in population risks or strictness and effectiveness of the procedures followed of blood collection process. The prevalence of HBV among the collected blood units was 2.76%, which is lower as compared to studies done in Wollaita Sodo, Ethiopia and South West Ethiopia [14,16] and higher as compared to a study done in Eritrea [15]. The other finding of the study is on HCV and the prevalence of HCV among the collected blood units was 0.68%.…”

“…The study identified that, 7255 blood units were collected in the tree consecutive years and from them, 4.6% were have at least one of the blood borne pathogens. The finding is lower as compared to a study done in Wollaita Sodo, South Ethiopia [14] but slight higher as compared to study done in Eritrea and South Ethiopia [15,16]. The observed difference might be because of the actual differences in population risks or strictness and effectiveness of the procedures followed of blood collection process.…”

“…The observed difference might be because of the actual differences in population risks or strictness and effectiveness of the procedures followed of blood collection process. Among the different blood borne pathogens, the prevalence of HIV was 0.41%, which is lower as compared to studies done in Wollaita Sodo and South Ethiopia (14) but it shows slightly higher rate than study done in Eritrea and South Ethiopia [15,16]. This might also be due to the actual differences in population risks or strictness and effectiveness of the procedures followed of blood collection process.…”