Are Blood Donors Screened For Hiv

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FDA Approves First Nucleic Acid Test (NAT) System to Screen Whole Blood Donors for Infections With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)

The Food and Drug Administration has licensed the first nucleic acid test (NAT) system intended for screening donors of whole blood and blood components intended for use in transfusion. This test system can simultaneously detect the presence of HIV... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thai Red Cross Ends Separate Screening for Gay Blood Donors

Responding to concerns from activists who felt its procedure was discriminatory, the Red Cross of Thailand has announced changes in its blood donor screening process. The risk assessment form required of potential donors included one question that... Read more »

FDA OKs Second HIV Donor Screening Test

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test, the Abbott Prism HIV O Plus assay, that detects HIV antibodies in donated blood and organs. The test is one of five that run on Abbott's fully automated Prism System. FDA said the test... Read more »

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blood donor screening

I know that you are an expert in blood banking. Do the tests that are used to screen blood donor blood in the USA detect HIV 1 group O?Thanks,...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Yes, the HIV antibody tests that are licensed to screen blood in the United States do detect HIV-1 O. BJ... Read more »

HIV testing of blood donors

Plese, what do you think about the current strategy of testing HIV antibodies only in blood donors ? Would not be safer to use also HIV antigen testing for screening ? Or some kind of Ag/Ab tests ? Please let me know your view. Thank you....

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

P24 antigen testing is used to screen the nation's blood supply. The p24 antigen test detects the presence of a protein on the surface of HIV (the "p" standing for protein, and "24" standing for its molecular weight). P24... Read more »

Does everyone who donates blood get a blood donor card?

Do you know how long it takes a blood bank to notify a donor of positive hiv test results? Is it weeks or months after the donation? My boyfriend got his "donor card" about one week after donating and thinks that it means that he did...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Thank you for your question. When a person donates blood, if they test positive on any of the screening tests for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, HTLV-I, HTLV-II, and syphilis, they are notified in writing as soon as possible (often within a few... Read more »

HIV screening for donating blood (BLOOD DONATION, FALSE POSITIVE TEST 2009)

Dr. Bob, My sister recently tried to donate blood and was denied. She recieved a letter stating that she was HIV positive. How accurate are the tests that the Red Cross performs? She is getting an HIV test but I would like to know what the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,The purpose of HIV screening at blood donation sites is to protect the blood supply, not to diagnose HIV disease. The tests run at blood donation centers are very sensitive so that they won't miss any true infections. In the process they... Read more »

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4 patients get HIV from organ donor
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AP Medical Writer / November 13, 2007
CHICAGO --A troubling case in which a high-risk organ donor infected four patients with the AIDS virus and... Read more »

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Donor blood center test

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Quick question if anyone knows out there. What type of test does the blood center use to test for hiv? How effective is it? It would seem nothing would get past them. Right? Where can you get the kind of test done that the blood center uses? ... Read more »

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