HIV screening at blood banks in Taiwan ROC?

Question

Does anyone know of the testing procedure for screening blood at blood banks in Taiwan? Do they use the NA test or...?

Answer 1

First of all, by law, donating blood is illegal by anyone who has AIDS. Even though you don't know if you have AIDS, donating blood still constitue criminal offenses.

部分感染者明知自己感染而仍與他人發生危險性行為，或明知曾從事危險性行為仍藉由捐血進行人類免疫缺乏病毒篩檢，

http://www.cdc.gov.tw/scripts/marker.exe?s=39&o=4&t=0&a=15&v=&k=1,&g=0&MERGEFIELD=-&CODECONVERT=-&SORTFIELDS=2&SIM_START=1&SIM_NUM=10&REL_START=1&REL_NUM=10&CLS_START=1&CLS_NUM=20&LINK=-&REDIRECTTO=-&PATHLINK=-&p=%AE%BD%A6%E5&c=16,1&i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov.tw%2Ffile%2F39213_5919791667.doc&j=19958&n=&rm=&re=&r=

為避免其他人因此類捐血或篩檢行為而受到感染，爰增列相關刑事罰則或提高刑度，以儆效尤。

http://www.blood.org.tw/index.php?action=qa&id=98

如果捐血人罹患HIV，但本身不知道，捐血機構如何防範？

According to Taiwan Blood Services Fundation, they are taking the following steps to ensure the quality of blood:

A：目前捐血機構對於防範HIV有下列措施：

At the location, they post posters.
1.捐血地點入口處張貼海報呼籲高危險群千萬不要來捐血，

The poster shows the high risks group and ask them not to donate blood.
海報上面明確說明那些是屬於高危險群。

At the location, they provide HIV information booklets.
2.捐血地點內提供HIV宣傳單張，

They have the lists of hospitals and consultants addresses and phone numbers.
該資料內有諮詢及檢驗醫院名單。


3.填寫捐血登記表：該表上方再次提醒高危險群請勿捐血，

The blood donation form asks the high risks group not to donate blood.

並說明那些是高危險群，

And AIDS Act's regulation and rules and penalties.
及「後天免疫缺乏症候群條例」規定的罰則。

Ensuring the identies of the donors, the center asks for the donor's ID.
4.請捐血人提供有照片之身分證明文件，以確認捐血人身分。

The center match the AIDS patients with the record.
5.電腦資料查詢：本會各捐血中心所有電腦中有行政院衛生署列管的

These record are from CDC.
所有愛滋病帶原者名單及行政院衛生署通知需要列管的名單，

The center will refuse HIV positive donating blood if they are on the list.
如經查屬不適捐血名單，即婉拒捐血。

Private consulting:
6.私密性面談：各捐血點均設有私密性空間進行捐血前面談，

It ensures the privacy of the donor.
在面談過程中也注意捐血人的隱私問題，

Again, they will inform the high risks group not to donate blood.
如捐血人告知可能有愛滋感染之高危險行為，即婉拒捐血。

Conscious phone call:
7.良心回電：在捐血過程中，以「良心回電」宣傳單再次提醒捐血人，

The conscious phone call brochure
如有高危險行為，捐血過程中未告訴工作人員，

asks the donors to give the blood center a "conscious" phone call within 5 hours if the donors are in the high risk group.
請在5小時內以電話告知捐血中心。

HIV screening: this is the final defense,
8.檢驗愛滋病毒：這是最後一道防線，

All blood are giving HIV screening.
每一袋血均做愛滋病毒檢驗，

The hospital will only use the blood that's test nagative;
確認陰性才供應醫院病患輸用。

however, it cannot detect the "window period".
但捐血人如在感染初期捐血，

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_period
因空窗期而無法查出，即會造成空窗期感染的遺憾問題。
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The center checks for Anti-HIV 1/2, HBsA, STS, HTLV Ⅰ/Ⅱ, etc.

國內現行血液篩檢雖嚴格把關，但仍受限於空窗期的盲點。

The center current method gives the window period about 22 days
目前愛滋病毒檢驗空窗期平均為22天；

Although the NAT can reduce the period to 11 days, due to the cost, it has not been implmented.
最新檢驗技術NAT（核酸擴增檢測）雖可將空窗期降至11天左右，但因價格昂貴並未實施。

From all indication, the foundation is using ELISA as the method of blood screening.

Answer 2

all blood banks used test to look for hiv. I made sure I was negative bfore I gave blood .