Medknow Publications on behalf of Indian Journal of Medical Sciences Trust
Abstract
The seroreactivity pattern amongst blood donors in rural population was
studied at S.R.T. Rural Medical College and Hospital, Ambajogai (M.
S.). The study period was from January 1996 to December 2001. A total
number of 12,240 blood donors were screened. The voluntary donation was
36.98% and replacement donors were 63.02%. No professional donor is
bled in our blood bank. The HIV seroreactivity among voluntary donors
was 1.56% and 2.11% in replacement donors. The HBsAg seroreactivity was
2.78% in voluntary donors and 4.84% in replacement donors. VDRL
seroreactivity is 1.12% in replacement donors. No malarial parasite and
HCV seroreactive donor was found in our study period. We have found the
magnitude of hepatitis to be far more than that of HIV. Hence testing
for HCV routinely is mandatory, besides HBsAg