Evolution of the global use of unsafe medical injections, 2000-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Since 1999, substantial efforts have been made by the international community to reduce the risks associated with unsafe injections, through ministries of health, international donors, the World Health Organization and the Safe Injection Global Network. The present study attempted to measure the progress, or lack thereof, made over the 2000-2010 decade in reducing unsafe injections in ten regions of the world corresponding to developing and transitional economies.

Methods

Data about the number of injections per person per year and the proportion of re-use of syringes and needles were obtained for 2010, mainly from population surveys, and compared with previous estimates for 2000 which had used various sources of information including injection safety assessments, p

SUBMITTER: Pepin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3851995 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature