Title |
Lessons learned from a community based intervention to improve injection safety in Pakistan
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Published in |
BMC Research Notes, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-6-159 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Arshad Altaf, Sharaf Ali Shah, Kulsoom Shaikh, Fiona M Constable, Selma Khamassi |
Abstract |
A national study in 2007 revealed that in Pakistan the prevalence of hepatitis B is 2.5% and for hepatitis C it is 5%. Unsafe injections have been identified as one of the reasons for the spread of these infections. Trained and untrained providers routinely perform unsafe practices primarily for economic reasons i.e. they reuse injection equipment on several patients. The patients, do not question the provider about the need for an injection because of social barriers or whether the syringe is coming from a new sterile packet due to lack of knowledge. The present paper represents an intervention that was developed to empower the community to improve unsafe injection practices in rural Pakistan. |
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