| [evaluation of residual infectious risk among blood donors in national center of blood transfusion in conakry]. | to estimate the risk of transmitting human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis b virus (hbv) by blood transfusion. residual risks for each of infections have been calculated from incidence cases number, rate incidence for 100,000 person-years has been estimated and multiplied by the period of mute serological window for each agent (22 days for hiv and 56 for hbv) in order to estimate the residual risk. this study shows that risk residual is 1/121 blood donations for hbv and 1/8562 blood d ... | 2004 | 15120107 |
| hiv-1 subtypes d and f are prevalent in guinea conakry. | background: limited data is available upon the distribution of different hiv-1/2 genotypes in the blood donor population from guinea conakry. objectives: to investigate the prevalence of hiv-1/2 subtypes in asymptomatic blood donors in guinea conakry, in order to update knowledge of hiv-1/2 epidemiology within this country. study design: samples from 104 blood donors seropositive for hiv-1/2 were tested for hiv-1 by real-time rt-pcr. those negative for hiv-1 were tested with hiv-2 nested rt-pcr. ... | 2012 | 22269393 |
| [four year management of hiv serology at the national center of blood transfusion in conakry]. | from january 1997 to december 2000, 21145 blood donations have been collected and tested for anti-hiv antibodies by the national center of blood transfusion of conakry (ncbt). 347 were positive, confirmed by western blot (312 hiv-1, 20 hiv-2 and 15 hiv1-2). hiv seroprevalence in tested blood donations showed a slow decrease by year: 1.87% in 1997 to 1.79% in 2000. the distribution according to donation type was 1% for volunteer donors and 2% for family donors. seropositivity hiv rates according ... | 2004 | 15255362 |
| prevention is still the best medicine. condom social marketing campaign changes attitudes and actions in guinea. | in guinea, jingles promoting prudence condoms are heard on radio and television in 4 different national languages 5 times a day. this has produced an attitudinal change through an intense national media campaign orchestrated by the usaid-financed social marketing of contraceptives project carried out by population services international (psi), which provides family planning information, products and services through public and private outlets for 500,000 sexually active couples. psi's paid media ... | 1993 | 12288836 |