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Do, 14 April 2005 19:16

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Gloudina het in 'n liegstorie vertel dat, persentasie gewyse, die
blanke vrouens wat MIV positief is, gelykstaan met die swart bevolking
wat positief is..
Sy noem dit egter in haar onkunde HIV en weet nie eens dat die
Afrikaanse weergawe daarvan MIV is nie. Selfs nie na ek haar
meer kere al daarop gewys het nie.

Ek neig om te dink dat Annette haar ondersteun het met die storie.
Indien ek verkeerd is Annette, vra ek verskoning, en (van) die res
van die groep sal my defnitief daarop wys as ek verkeerd onthou.

Hier volg egter iets om te lees uit die mond van iemand wat nie in
Kanada sit en gif spoeg oor die blankes wat haar en haar voorouers
onderdruk het nie, maar iemand wat beslis behoort te weet waarvan hy
praat.

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The Mercury 14th April 2005 P2 NEWS
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SOUTH AFRICA

SANBS chief defends HIV testing method

Racial profiling for blood 'safest'
April 14, 2005

By Quinton Mtyala

South African National Blood Service Chief Executive Anthon Heyns, in
an interview in the latest edition of the SA Medical Journal,
maintains that racial profiling of blood is "the safest and best
current known modus operandi".

This is despite the national Health Ministry setting a deadline for
early September for racial profiling of blood to end.

The SANBS would be spending R90 million a year to implement new HIV
risk-reduction measures for donated blood which, according to Heyns,
was unavoidable because of the Health Ministry's reluctance to
negotiate on the use of race as a valid risk indicator.

In the journal, Heyns said if the SANBS was forced to treat all donors
as equal and abort the "risk management" programme HIV/Aids
transmission would leap from the internationally acclaimed two
infected recipients a year to 30.

"From there it would spiral out of control to a baseline rate of 100
infected recipients per year. I don't know how long that (100 a year)
would take, but that's what could result," Heyns said.

Health Ministry spokesman Sibani Mngadi expressed surprise at
statements attributed to Heyns, saying the service had not reported
problems with changing the profiling of blood.

Donors

Mngadi said: "Our principle is that we provide blood that is safe to
use, but clearly we can't use race as a risk indicator."

WP Blood Transfusion Services' Graham Thurtell said his organisation
did not racially profile potential donors.

"Donors have to fill in a questionnaire that is confidential. If there
is any doubt to the integrity of the questionnaire we will not bleed
them," said Thurtell.

He said nucleic acid testing, a new method of screening blood which
identified part of the HIV virus, would enhance safety.

"We're buying one machine which will cost about R4.8 million. Tests
for donors will cost about R95," said Thurtell.

Heyns told the journal that should the new risk model take off in
September it would cost 15% (R100) more a unit to produce and cost the
blood buyer between 20% and 25% more.

Nucleic acid testing narrows the window period of HIV infection to
five to 11 days from the present two to three weeks.

The service said the new method of testing would cost R80 million,
with an additional R10 million needed to implement a new donor
strategy.

When contacted by The Mercury, Heyns said the SANBS would not comment
until the implementation of risk-reduction measures was completed.

"The implementation of the new risk model is going according to plan,"
said Heyns.

He said the average risk of a black South African being HIV positive
was 100% greater than that of a white South African. Depending on a
specific group, it could be 150% higher.