Seroprevalence of  Hepatitis  B and C among blood  voluntarie in Iraq for 2008 and 2009

S. Hamim, Saad

	Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B and C among blood voluntarie in Iraq for 2008 and 2009
Journal of College of Education for Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-134
Author
Saad S. Hamim
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to determine the percentages of blood voluntaries in Iraq and detect the infection of Hepatitis B and C among them during 2008 and 2009. A total of 871973 blood voluntaries were enrolled in the present study, whom consulted the main blood transfusion units in Iraq and subjected to the detection of Hepatitis A and B tests by ELISA technique. The results showed a blood voluntary percentages of (1.389%) and (1.423%) for 2008 and 2009 years, respectively. In 2008, Basrah province showed a highly blood voluntary percentage with 53563 voluntary (2.128%), while Salah-Al-Deen province had the lowest percentage with 7590 voluntary (0.655%). In 2009 Baghdad province recorded the highest blood voluntary percentage with 152477 voluntary (2.208%), while Arbeel province showed the lowest ones with 21342 voluntary (0.139%). The results of serological assays for blood voluntaries for 2008 and 2009 years showed that 6787 of them were positive for Hepatitis B with a percentage of (0.778%) from the total blood voluntaries in all Iraq provinces, while the total positive tests for Hepatitis C were 3254 with a percentage of (0.373%), with a total percentages of 68.45% and 31.55% for the two years respectively (p < 0.01). In 2008, Duhook and Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf provinces showed the highest percentages of HBV and HCV with a percentages of (3.538%) and (2.201%), respectively. Al-Dewaniah and Salah-Al-Deen provinces recorded the lowest percentages for both types of viruses with a percentages of (0.264%) and (0.025%), respectively. In 2009, Al-Anbar and Karkuk provinces showed the highest percentages of HBV and HCV with a percentages of (3.194%) and (1.765%), respectively. While Thi-Qar and Salah-Al-Deen provinces had the lowest percentages for both diseases with a percentages of (0.220%) and (0.034%), respectively. The present study may conclude that there were an acceptable percentages of blood voluntary in Iraq, and Hepatitis B was more prevalence than Hepatitis C among blood voluntaries, which indicates the importance of such serological assays for blood voluntaries on one hand and the control processes for these two dangerous diseases on the other hand.

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