Contrasting HCV and HIV seroepidemiology in 11 years of blood donors screening in Brazil.
José Eduardo LeviS M LiraC B BubM B PoliteC C TerzianJ M KutnerPublished in: Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) (2017)
The majority of the HIV-infected donors are young males who deny risk factors in the interview and also ignore the confidence self-exclusion opportunity. As they may reiterate this behaviour in serial donations, use of the most sensitive laboratory testing is justified in this setting.