2015-07-092015-07-092012COSTA, Cristiano dos Santos. Soroepidemiologia do HCV em doadores de sangue na cidade de Imperatriz – MA. 2012. 55 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Belém, 2012. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Tropicais.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/6803Due to high mortality and especially morbidity, hepatitis is one of the most serious public health problems in the country and the world. Among them we highlight the infection of hepatitis C. The number of people who are unaware they are infected with HCV is relevant. As currently HCV transmission by blood transfusion and blood products is rare among blood donors, after the introduction of screening method in centers haemotherapic, crucial to detect the existence of a possible infection in the donor. The epidemiological reality of hepatitis C in Empress needs more knowledge and planning prevention strategies and assistance to individuals with HCV, since there is no network service for consolidated treatment, bureaucracy is great to reach the diagnosis of disease and under-reporting of cases is high. Aims to evaluate the prevalence of HCV in blood donation candidates in the municipality of Imperatriz - MA, so as to analyze the profile of the candidates considered unfit to donate blood in HEMOMAR, this city; determine the seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus among blood donors in the period from 2005 to 2010; conduct the survey of epidemiological data, highlighting the gender and age group with the highest prevalence of hepatitis C; comparing epidemiological data identifying the merits of the candidates seropositive for hepatitis C. the study is cross-sectional in nature, involving blood donors of the Center for Hematology of Maranhão Imperatriz - MA. In the distribution of blood donors HEMOMAR, regional Imperatriz-MA for sex, it appears that, in the years 2005 to 2011 the flow of donors was characterized by individuals of both sexes, with male predominance (75, 01%), when analyzing the profile of prospective donors with positive serology for HCV, we found that these were also the majority. The age of the blood donors was the predominant HEMOMAR 18-29. Candidates donation with positive serology for HCV, 79.17% were found in the situation of married / stable. Among the donors who were considered unfit to donate, 0.21% were seropositive for HCV. Most prospective donors with HCV seropositivity belonged to the municipality of Imperatriz. It was concluded that it's important to remember that the screening process clinical and laboratory reduces contamination risks in the process of blood transfusion. The figure of the donor blood should always be appreciated and congratulated by all.porAcesso AbertoMaranhão - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraDoadores de sangueHepatite CIncidênciaTransfusão de sangueSoroprevalência do HCVImperatriz - MADissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::SAUDE PUBLICACNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA::CLINICA MEDICA::DOENCAS INFECCIOSAS E PARASITARIAS