Blood Donor’s Status of HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis in this Region of Marathwada, India

Aims & objectives: blood transfusion can cause the transmission of infections to recipients. this is an important mode of infection. the aim of study was to assess the prevalence of such type of infections among blood donors and to compare the seroprevalence of transfusion transmitted diseases in voluntary donors and replacement donors. retrospective study of five years from jan. 2007 to dec. 2011 was done. this study was conducted at blood bank' mimsr medical college lata' govt. medical college' latur and bhalchandra blood bank' latur. material & methods: total 10' 4925 donors were tested. donors were screened for seroprevalance of hiv, hbc' hcv and syphilis. screening of hiv' hbv & hcv was done by elisa method & syphilis was screened by rpr type. results: the comparison of seroprevalence of hiv' hbv' hcv & syphilis in voluntary donors and replacement donors showed significant difference only for hiv in the years 2007' 2010' and 2011. conclusion: the seroprevalence of transfusion transmitted diseases in the study is very low or negligible in voluntary donors as compared to replacement donors. there was a declining trend of seroprevalence for all the disease screened. but in our study the difference is not significant' which indicates that the selection of donors is of low quality. the selection of high quality voluntary donors should be achieved by creation of awareness by education of the prospective donor populations