Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (3)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by LE PONT, F.
Right arrow Articles by VALLERON, A.-J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by LE PONT, F.
Right arrow Articles by VALLERON, A.-J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© 1995 Oxford University Press

research-article

Estimation of the Size of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic due to Blood Transfusion in France

FRANÇOISE LE PONT, DOMINIQUE COSTAGLIOLA, VÉRONIQUE MASSARI and ALAIN-JACQUES VALLERON

B3E, INSERM U263 and SC4, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Federatif Saint Antoine de Recherches sur la Santé (ISARS) Pans, France.

Background This study presents estimates of the number of Individuals contaminated by human Immunodeliciency virus(HIV) via a blood transfusion received in France before the end of 1991 and those who have developed or will develop AIDS.

Methods. The computer simulation modeln takes into account several possible hypotheses conceming the annual number of Infected blood donations collected before the Introduction of HIV screening in August 1985, those collected between August 1985 and December 1991 not exculded by the testing procedure due to the senoconversion perlod, the number of lablie blood components eloeborated from one donation, the 5-year mortality rate of blood reclplents, and the incubation delay.

Results. Rusults reproducing the evolution of the reported annual of transfusion-aasoclated AIDS cases were selected which enabled the estimation of the number of recipients infected (between 3300 and 4300) and of the number of transfusion-associated AIDS cases (between 1600 and 1800) compare with 1300 transfusion-associated AIDS cases reported by June 1993.

Conclusion. This methkology could be used for other countries provided information required the model is available.

Received 1 July 1994


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.