Prevalence of Blood Transmitted Infection in Donors of Yasuj Blood Transfusion Organization

ABSTRACT Blood transmitted diseases are one of the most important problems in the science of blood transfusion that cause illness and its complication, and spending much money. Among them check on hepatitis B and C, AIDS and syphitis are routine in all blood transfusion services. Our goal of this retrospective study is determining the prevalence of this diseases in Blood Transfusion Service of Yasuj during 1999. For this purpose we collected data from the special forms that donors filled before donation and then analysed them. Among all 4980 case there was 48 cases (0/96%) with hepatitis B, one case (0.02%) hepatitis C. The Prevalence of AIDS and syphils was zero. The Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C indicated that knowledge of prevention of these diseases was not enough and we must spend more time on it