Use of Blood Donor Screening to Monitor Prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C Viruses, South Africa

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Vermeulen, Marion ; Swanevelder, Ronel ; Chowdhury, Dhuly ; Ingram, Charlotte ; Reddy, Ravi ; Bloch, Evan M. ; Custer, Brian S. ; Murphy, Edward L.
• Corporate Authors:
  for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) International Component
• Description:
  Among 397,640 first-time blood donors screened in South Africa during 2012-2015, HIV prevalence was 1.13%, hepatitis B virus prevalence 0.66%, and hepatitis C virus prevalence 0.03%. Findings of note were a high HIV prevalence in Mpumalanga Province and the near absence of hepatitis C virus nationwide.
• Subjects:
  Blood Donors Dispatch Hepatitis Hepatitis B Virus Hepatitis C Virus HIV Prevalence Viruses
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(9):1560-1563.
• Pubmed ID:
  28820374
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5572879
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  South Africa
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9c829139001bfe64dcf6addf99c47f396fbc6015fb37f8bcd39095d81d953520
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47951/cdc_47951_DS1.pdf
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