By: Muhammad Saleem Khan
Abstract
It is common to donate blood to save lives of critical patients the carefully transfusion of blood and screening of blood donors is essential to test the blood for the purpose to stop the spreading of the infectious agents trough blood components. Hepatitis is one of the major cause of all the deaths throughout the world as in present, record of past and feature the diseases has alarming signals. The retrospective study period of one year was conducted to show the prevalence of HBV and HCV along with HIV in the blood donors of KPK, Pakistan the information will be helpful for general population which had been remained aware less and unwarned. In current study 8439 blood donors’ data were examined from well-known blood bank of KPK. The 98.9% donors were HBV negative and 1.1% positive. The 99.3% donors were HCV negative and 0.5% positiv e. Overall prevalence of the hepatitis virus (both B and C) was low in the blood donors. The prevalence of HIV is negligible with only one sample found positive. It is concluded that, HBV, HCV and HIV transmission and occurrence low comparative to other province due to awareness, preventive measures and vaccines availability in the KPK.
Author Information:
Tariq Ahmed, Rahool, Noor Nasir Khattak, Faizullah Khan, Shahabudddin, Muhammad Saleem Khan
Department of Microbiology, Quaid e Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
Department of Endocrinology, Ichan School of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center, New York, USA
Department of Obsteristics and Gynecology, KIMS, KMU Peshawar, Pakistan
Department of Pharmacy, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Key words: Ratio, HBV, HCV, Prevalence, Blood donors.
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