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ArticleJournal of community health2020

Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Infection Among a Population of Blood Donors in the Kpandai District of Northern Ghana: A Five-Year Retrospective Study from 2014 to 2018.

Ahmed Tijani Bawah, Silas Kinanyok, Albert Abaka-Yawson, Benjamin Mwintumah, Lincoln Toamsoma Ngambire, Richard Darko, Abdul-Wahab Mawuko Hamid

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Article in Journal of community health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ahmed Tijani BawahDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31, Ho, Ghana. ahmed024gh@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0727-9986
Silas KinanyokDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31, Ho, Ghana.
Albert Abaka-YawsonDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31, Ho, Ghana.
Benjamin MwintumahKpandai District Hospital, P.O. Box 35, Kpandai, Ghana.
Lincoln Toamsoma NgambireGRA Custom Division, P. O. Box KF304, Koforidua, Ghana.
Richard DarkoDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31, Ho, Ghana.
Abdul-Wahab Mawuko HamidDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31, Ho, Ghana.
University of Health and Allied Sciences · GHKoforidua Technical University · GH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an infectious disease that is specific to the liver, causing both acute and chronic hepatitis. This study determined the trend of HBV infection among blood donors in the Kpandai District Hospital from January 2014 to December 2018. Retrospective analysis of donor profiles for a period of 5 years was used to assess the distribution of seropositive cases in relation to age, sex, and trend. The data was collected using pre-designed questionnaire and managed using Microsoft Excel spread sheet 2013. The overall sero-prevalence of HBV was 8.2% (230/2802). The year to year analysis depicted significant trends in reduction of HBV infection among the study population at a rate of 13 percentage points above the mean from 2014 to 2015, and 4.3 percentage points below the mean from 2016 to 2018 across the period. The prevalence in males was 8.4% (225/2687) and that of the females was 4.4% (5/115) and the highest rate of infection was among those below 30 years 9.8% (163/1666). Although the general prevalence of HBV infection was high (8.2%), there was a significant trend reduction in rate of infection across the study period. This suggests that the public health interventional strategies put in place to manage the HBV infection in Kpandai District seem to be working.

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Hepatitis B virusAdolescentAdultBlood DonorsFemaleGhanaHepatitis BHepatitis B Surface AntigensHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceRetrospective StudiesSeroepidemiologic StudiesHepatitis B Surface AntigensBlood donorsHepatitis B virusSeropositiveTrend

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