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Use of Routinely Collected Blood Donation Data for Expanded Hiv and Syphilis Surveillance in Blantyre District, Malawi

2023-03-31

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<h4>Background: </h4> Although WHO recommends that all blood donations be screened for transfusion transmissible infections, these data are currently not incorporated into national surveillance. We set out to use routinely collected data from blood donors in Blantyre district, Malawi to explore HIV and syphilis prevalence and identify seroconversions among repeat donors. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohor...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2696910/v1
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