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30 per cent of HIV South Kazakhstan children infected through donor blood - CDC

30 per cent of HIV South Kazakhstan children infected through donor blood - CDC

Shymkent. October 4. Kazakhstan Today - By preliminary data of the Central Asian office CDC, about 30 per cent of HIV infected South Kazakhstan children got infected through donor blood.

"It is possible to tell for sure that about 30 per cent of infected and checked children got infected trough blood transfusion," the Director of the Central Asian CDC office Michael Favorov said at the press conference on Wednesday.

According to M. Favorov, the following mechanism of spread took place: "children who got infected through blood were a starting mechanism. Further, there was an infection in hospital". "The second place occupies usbclavicular catheterization," he explained to the journalists.

The Director of office CDC considers that there is also the third factor - duration of stay in hospital. "The longer a child was in hospital, the more he was contacted through medical equipment.

Final results of the analyses of HIV infected children, being carried out in the CDC laboratories in Atlanta, can be expected not earlier than in three-four months.

As it was informed earlier, 133 HIV infected children, as well as 17 HIV positive mothers have been revealed in the South Kazakhstan.

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