As HCV is ten times more infectious than HIV on blood-to-blood contact, intravenous drug users and recipients of blood products are particularly susceptible to coinfection. For example, on routine testing of blood products from HIV-infected hemophiliacs treated before the discovery of HCV in the early nineties, HCV antibodies and HCV RNA were detected in the serum of over 90 % of patients. The ...

Blood and body fluid Exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. Therefor We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of Sfax. We have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health p...

In 1978 the "Howie" Code of Practice1 for the prevention of infection in clinical laboratories and post mortem examination rooms recommended that specimens and request forms from patients known or thought to be suffering from infections with microorganisms in Categories Bl and B2 should be marked, "danger of infection." In 1985 the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) in its interim...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: Injection safety has over the years become important in view of the many diseases that are transmitted through unsafe injection practice. The objective was to assess the knowledge and practice of injection safety by nurses in mission hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. A stru...

Sharps-related injuries carry the risk of serious blood borne infection. A systematic review was undertaken to consider the evidence related to safer sharps devices and their impact on needlestick injury reduction within the healthcare sector. The review sought to determine whether: n the use of safer sharps devices could reduce the incidence of sharps injury; n dedicated educational / training...