Table 1.

Reference Point; Transfusion Transmissible Infection (TTI) Seroprevalence in Five Blood Transfusion Centers (BTCs) (April–June 2009)

		Kit used	Moshi	Mwanza	Mbeya	Tabora	Mtwara	Overall
	TTI	for testing	(N = 4,329)	(N = 6,078)	(N = 3,686)	(N = 5,963)	(N = 3,168)	prevalence
1	HIV (%)	ELISA Vironostika HIV Uni‐form II Ag/Ab	2.0	5.1	1.5	2.3	2.5	2.8
2	HBsAg (%)	ELISA Genedia	7.1	7.5	5.1	6.0	7.7	6.6
3	HCV (%)	ELISA Genedia	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.9	1.3	0.5
4	Syphilis (%)	RPR strips	0.8	0.1	0.4	0.0	4.0	0.7