Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Dispatch
Use of Blood Donor Screening to Monitor Prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C Viruses, South Africa
Marion Vermeulen, Ronel Swanevelder, Dhuly Chowdhury, Charlotte Ingram1, Ravi Reddy, Evan M. Bloch, Brian S. Custer, Edward L. Murphy
, and for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) International Component
, and for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) International Component
Table
Prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV, by demographic characteristics, among persons making blood donations through the South African National Blood Service, January 2012–September 2015*
| Characteristic | No. first-time donors | No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV-positive | HBV-positive | HCV-positive | ||
| Overall |
397,640 |
4,481 (1.13) |
2,638 (0.66) |
125 (0.03) |
| Age group, y | ||||
| <20 | 185,983 | 1,139 (0.61) | 382 (0.21) | 6 (0.00) |
| 20–29 | 103,373 | 1,702 (1.65) | 999 (0.97) | 39 (0.04) |
| 30–39 | 55,420 | 1,038 (1.87) | 721 (1.30) | 17 (0.03) |
| 40–49 | 33,330 | 440 (1.32) | 366 (1.10) | 21 (0.06) |
| 50–59 | 16,518 | 146 (0.88) | 151 (0.91) | 31 (0.19) |
| >60 |
3,016 |
16 (0.53) |
19 (0.63) |
11 (0.36) |
| Sex | ||||
| M | 177,729 | 1,396 (0.79) | 1,635 (0.92) | 77 (0.04) |
| F |
219,903 |
3,085 (1.40) |
1,003 (0.46) |
48 (0.02) |
| Race/ethnicity† | ||||
| Black | 211,722 | 4,204 (1.99) | 2,355 (1.11) | 62 (0.03) |
| White | 122,894 | 74 (0.06) | 80 (0.07) | 43 (0.03) |
| Asian | 28,428 | 28 (0.10) | 41 (0.14) | 11 (0.04) |
| SAC | 20,246 | 98 (0.48) | 99 (0.49) | 5 (0.02) |
| Unknown |
14,350 |
77 (0.54) |
63 (0.44) |
4 (0.03) |
| Province | ||||
| Eastern Cape | 37,055 | 365 (0.99) | 315 (0.85) | 4 (0.01) |
| Free State | 20,759 | 241 (1.16) | 68 (0.33) | 3 (0.01) |
| Gauteng | 175,623 | 1,774 (1.01) | 967 (0.55) | 77 (0.04) |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 80,111 | 918 (1.15) | 728 (0.91) | 14 (0.02) |
| Limpopo | 15,661 | 159 (1.02) | 113 (0.72) | 7 (0.04) |
| Mpumalanga | 35,720 | 779 (2.18) | 305 (0.85) | 8 (0.02) |
| Northwest | 19,205 | 124 (0.65) | 65 (0.34) | 7 (0.04) |
| Northern Cape | 10,333 | 74 (0.72) | 57 (0.55) | 3 (0.03) |
*3,173 donors had missing information on province. HBC, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; SAC, South African Colored.
†The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa classifies the South Africa population into 4 race groups: African, Indian, White, and Coloured. The SAC population is an admixed group made up of 5 source populations (African Khoisan, African Bantu, European, South Asian, and East Asian) dating back to slavery and the early settlers.
1Current affiliation: South African Bone Marrow Registry, Cape Town, South Africa.
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