The Nation - News from July 22, 1988
Scientists have developed a rapid screening test for the AIDS virus that will make blood transfusions in developing nations safer and could save thousands of lives each year. Blood transfusions are a major route of transmission for AIDS in the Third World, where there are few blood banks and little money for the sophisticated screening tests used in the United States. “This is one of the major advances in AIDS prevention,” said Dr. Thomas C. Quinn, a leading AIDS researcher at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions who directed the study. In some parts of Central Africa, nearly 20% of blood donors are infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Quinn’s report appears in today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
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