Prevalence, incidence, and residual risk of human immunodeficiency virus among community and replacement first‐time blood donors in São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

HIV incidence and residual transfusion risk estimates are approximately 10 times higher in Brazil FT donors compared to US and European FT donors. Community FT donors had higher HIV prevalence than replacement FT donors. The yield of p24 antigen or RNA screening will be low in Brazilian donors, but substantially higher than in US donors.