Unsafe injections are suspected to occur routinely in developing countries. We carried out a literature review to quantify the prevalence of unsafe injections and to assess the disease burden of bloodborne infections attributable to this practice. Quantitative information on injection use and unsafe injections (defined as the reuse of syringe or needle between patients without sterilization) wa...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of unsafe sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related knowledge, health and work-related conditions, and correlates of practising unsafe sex among domestic and foreign male workers in multinational workplaces in Jordan. DESIGN Cross-sectional behavioural assessment survey. SETTING Multinational workplaces in Jordan. PARTICIPANTS 230 ...

Guttmacher Institute/IUSSP The primary objective of this chapter is to encourage and facilitate researchers in finding ways to make and publish national-level estimates of unsafe abortion where such estimates are currently unavailable. Knowing the magnitude of unsafe abortion in a given country facilitates an informed discussion on the abortion issue and on improving women’s reproductive health...

It is a question he has already posed many times this morning and most of his patients are happy to comply. In fact they expect him to offer an injection and might feel cheated if he did not. This scenario is repeated in urban and rural clinics, in high-tech hospitals, and in shanty pharmacies every day across the globe. The World Health Organization estimates that about 12 billion injections a...

BACKGROUND Safely burying Ebola infected individuals is acknowledged to be important for controlling Ebola epidemics and was a major component of the 2013-2016 West Africa Ebola response. Yet, in order to understand the impact of safe burial programs it is necessary to elucidate the role of unsafe burials in sustaining chains of Ebola transmission and how the risk posed by activities surroundin...