DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2021.v09i07.011

Pages: 1180-1184

Background: Today blood transfusion is most frequently used of a life-saving therapeutic procedure in treatment arena. But in some times its becomes revers like life threatening rather than lifesaving. Specially for the blood receivers may have the threat of transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) because of transmitting virus, bacteria or parasitic, microorganisms through blood transfusion procedures. Specially hepatitis B and C virus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis (Treponema pallidum) bear the risk of transmission by blood transfusion. For this reason, Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), anti- Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), anti- human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), syphilis antibody TPHA (Treponema pallidum haemagglutination) and MP (Malarial Parasite) are routinely controlled in all donated blood samples. Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to analyze the status of HBsAg, HCV, HIV, TPHA & MP test results among general blood donors. Methods: This was a comparative observational study which was conducted in the Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine, National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital(NICRH), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from January 2018 to December 2020. In total 14,625 general blood donors were enrolled as the study population. This study was approved by the ethical committee of the mentioned hospital. Proper written consents were taken from all the participants before starting data collection. A pre-designed questionnaire was used in patent data collection. All data were processed, analyzed and disseminated by MS Office and SPSS version 20 as per need. Result: In this study 70.5% blood donors were male and 29.5% were female. So male was dominating in number and the male vs female ratio was 2.39:1. The highest number of donors were from 18-30 years’ age group which was 67.3%. Then 28.6% and 4.1% donors were from 31-34 years 41-50 years’ age groups respectively Finally, in analyzing the positive .........