The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS), conducted from 1989 to 2001, and the
REDS-II, conducted from 2004 to 2012, were National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute …

Objective: First-time blood donors are the most common group of blood donors. They usually
have different motivations for blood donation, some of which provoke the donors to hide risk …

BACKGROUND Confidential unit exclusion (CUE) was introduced in the 1980's as an
additional layer to blood safety, before highly specific and sensitive nucleic acid tests (NAT) …

Over time, data warehouse (DW) systems have become more difficult to develop because of
the growing heterogeneity of data sources. Despite advances in research and technology …

BACKGROUND: Brazilian blood centers ask candidate blood donors about the number of
sexual partners in the past 12 months. Candidates who report a number over the limit are …

Background and Objectives Higher risk of HIV infection could be associated with test
seeking, which is one motivation for donating blood. Cognitive social capital is defined as …

BACKGROUND: For transfusion purposes, blood donors must be accepted both in clinical
and serological evaluations and must not have excluded their own donation using the …

Blood transfusion is still an irreplaceable therapeutic modality, widely applied to medical
care. Clinical interviews and laboratory testing for transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI) are …

BACKGROUND In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in a blood bank in São Paulo, we
tested the hypotheses that offering client‐centered human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) …

A transmissão sexual é a principal rota de contaminação por HIV/AIDS, com a maioria dos
casos atribuídos ao sexo desprotegido entre homens que fazem sexo com homens (HSH) …