HIV Among Blood Donors In Perak, Malaysia : A Review From 2015 to 2019

Blood donors screened positive HIV will be called for counselling and further management in our tertiary centre in Perak, Malaysia. Nucleic acid testing (NAT) and serological testing are use as screening and detection of HIV among blood donors. A cross-sectional study was undertaken from May to December 2020 by reviewing the existing blood donors database of Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh, Perak, that handle more than 314000 blood bags during the study period. 97 individuals tested positive with HIV, all of them donated whole blood and the median age is 30 years old. This group of donors comprised different ethnicity (Malay 63.9%, Chinese 15.5%, Indian 18.6% and other ethnicity 2.1%) reflecting multiracial population of Malaysia. 99% of HIV blood donors are male and more than half of them (63.9%) were single and (57.7%) were new donors. 3 donors didn't turn up for post donation counselling, half of them (55.3%) denied practicing any high risk behaviours, while 44.7% of them revealed their past involvement in one or two high risk behaviours. The most commonly reported high risk behaviour was practicing lifestyle of casual sex or multiple sexual partners (19.1%), followed by man having sex with man (MSM) (15.1%) and "make or received payment in exchanged for sex" (11.7%). It is pivotal to maintain equilibrium between recruiting blood donors and at the same time educate those with high risk behaviours to defer themselves prior donating. HIV infection among blood donors remain a thread to Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) in Malaysia. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my