High sero-prevalence of transfusion transmitted infections among prisoner blood donors from Punjab prisons

ABSTRACT

Objective: prisoners as a high risk group are never recommended for blood donations. In Pakistan, prisoners are legally allowed to donate blood and get thirty days extra remission. In Pakistan, there is not much published data on prisoner blood donors. The study aimed to estimate the sero-prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], Hepatitis B with [HBV], Hepatitis C virus [HCV] and Syphilis among physically healthy prisoner blood donors in prisons of Punjab