Beijing: As five-year-old Maomao and her family struggle to live with the HIV she got via a blood transfusion, China’s top HIV/AIDS specialist revealed that each year about 10 people suffer the same plight due to limitations of screening technology.
Wu Zunyou, head of the National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, said that despite gradual updating to the far more sensitive RNA-based HIV screening at the nation’s blood banks, the risk of contracting blood-borne diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C still exists for blood transfusion recipients.
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