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Volume 4, Number 1—March 1998
Perspective
Risk for Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases in Central and South America
Table 1
Coverage of screeninga of blood donors and seroprevalence rates (per 1,000) of infectious diseases, by countryb
| Country | HIV |
HBVc |
HCV |
Syphilis |
T. cruzi |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cov.d (%) | Prev.e (/103) | Cov. (%) | Prev. (/103) | Cov. (%) | Prev. (/103) | Cov. (%) | Prev. (/103) | Cov. (%) | Prev. (/103) | |
| Bolivia | 36.2 | 0.10 | 14.5 | 2.00 | 0 | ?f | 37.9 | 18.10 | 29.4 | 147.90 |
| Chile | 100 | 3.40 | 98.7 | 2.00 | 34.0 | 6.40 | 95.2 | 11.40 | 76.7 | 12.00 |
| Colombia | 98.8 | 2.00 | 98.3 | 7.00 | 24.7 | 9.00 | 87.3 | 13.00 | 1.4 | 12.00 |
| Costa Rica | 100 | 0.34 | 100 | 4.50 | 0 | ? | 100 | 5.00 | 0 | ? |
| Ecuador | 89.5 | 1.00 | 88.2 | 3.80 | 32.9 | 1.40 | 86.7 | 11.50 | 51.0 | 2.00 |
| El Salvador | 100 | 1.30 | 96.0 | 8.00 | 31.4 | 2.50 | 100 | 19.00 | 42.5 | 14.70 |
| Guatemala | 100 | 3.00 | 79.8 | 7.00 | 37.2 | 8.00 | 100 | 19.00 | 75.0 | 14.00 |
| Honduras | 100 | 3.90 | 83.5 | 2.70 | 27.8 | 0.50 | 100 | 7.00 | 100 | 12.40 |
| Nicaragua | 100 | 0.04 | 53.1 | 4.00 | 53.1 | 4.40 | 88.4 | 16.00 | 58.4 | 2.40 |
| Paraguay | 100 | 0.70 | 92.9 | 13.00 | 0 | ? | 66.9 | 28.00 | 86.8 | 45.00 |
| Peru | 100 | 2.80 | 100 | 8.60 | 57.4 | 4.40 | 100 | 9.60 | 0 | 23.60g |
| Venezuela | 100 | 2.10 | 100 | 14.40 | 31.0 | 9.40 | 100 | 10.70 | 100 | 13.20 |
aCoverage of screening = (number of screened donors ÷ total number of donors) x 100.
bData as reported by the countries from 1993, except for Ecuador and Paraguay, which were for 1994.
cHBsAg only.
dCoverage.
ePrevalence.
fScreening not performed and prevalence not known.
gData from a survey of 2,237 samples.
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