Implementation of an Africa-specific donor health questionnaire for human immunodeficiency virus risk screening.

Background And Objectives: We had previously developed an Africa-specific donor health questionnaire (ASDHQ) based on local risk factors and designed a scoring scheme. This study assessed the performance of a new donor health questionnaire by comparing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status in accepted versus deferred donors by ASDHQ and comparing the rate of risk deferrals with historical data.

Materials And Methods: Data were collected during a cross-sectional study conducted over 15 months at three referral-hospital-based blood services in Cameroon.