Evolution of the Global Use of Unsafe Medical Injections, 2000–2010. | National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC)

Evolution of the Global Use of Unsafe Medical Injections, 2000–2010.

Research study, Surveillance data
Abstract: 
In 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that, in developing and transitional countries, unsafe injections accounted for respectively 5%, 32% and 40% of new infections with HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Safe injection campaigns were organized worldwide. The present study sought to measure the progress in reducing the transmission of these viruses through unsafe injections over the subsequent decade.
Authors: 
Pepin JAbou Chakra CNPe´pin ENault V (2013) PLoS ONE 8(12): e80948.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080948
Category: 
Control
Epidemiology
Prevention