Study of Blood Donation Transmitted Infections

Abstract

Blood transfusion is an effective treatment for saving millions of lives, even though transfusiontransmissible infections are a major problem. An integrated approach for blood safety is required, which includes the collection of blood only from voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors. The emergence of Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious agents (TTIA) poses new challenges to ensuring safe blood transfusions, as these infections can include hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), syphilis, and malaria, among others. The objective of this study is to analyze the blood donation patterns  and the prevalence of transfusion-transmitted infectious agents in recent years at the blood bank. The data comprised a total of 1500 blood donors whose informationwas collected from the medical records at blood bank and Component Centre, covering the period of 1 year . Samples were collected from blood bags were tested for five major infections transmitted by transfusion which included HIV , Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus, Syphilis and Malaria. 1500 Blood Donations were there, out of which 54 donars blood was tested to be positive for Blood Transmitted Infections. Prevalence of Transmission Infections was 3.6% .