Prevalence of HIV positive blood donors among screened volunteers who satisfied the criteria for blood donation in a semi-urban Nigeria population

Abstract

Sub-Sahara Africa is the region that is most affected by
AIDS (UNAIDS, 2004; Fredrikson and Kanabus, 2005
and HIV and AIDS 2003). HIV/AIDS have devastating
effect on life and socio-economic activities (Fredrikson
and Kanabus 2005). Sustained efforts are on in some
sub-Sahara African countries such as Senegal, Zambia,
South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire (Fredrikson and Kanabus,
2005; HIV and AIDS, 2005) to prevent and lower the rate
of HIV/AIDS scourge. Similar activities towards this end
are being carried out in Nigeria by the Presidential
Committee on AIDS and the National Action Committee
on AIDS (NACA) (2004).