Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure

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  Whose fear is it anyway? People with HIV and dentists

  People with HIV are still failing to access good dental care, even though it’s in their interest. Do they assume dentists will still have issues treating them?...

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Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure in your own words

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  Needlestick injury

  I am an HIV-positive doctor. I was infected courtesy of a lapse in concentration and a needlestick injury at work. The prescribed dual post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) was taken for one...

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Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure news from aidsmap

• UK considering lifting restrictions on health workers with HIV – as long as viral load is undetectable

  The Department of Health has opened a consultation on possible changes to its policy on the employment of people with HIV. The current ban on people with HIV performing specific procedures in surgery, dentistry and gynaecology may be lifted, ...

  01 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

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• Swiss police arrest "healer" accused of infecting 16 with HIV

  Swiss police have arrested a self-styled healer after he stopped attending a trial where he stands accused of infecting 16 people with HIV using acupuncture needles.

  18 March 2013 | Reuters

• NY aims to prevent unsafe injections

  The Safe Injection Practices Coalition, a group of healthcare-related organizations including the CDC indicated since 2001, more than 150,000 patients in the U.S. were told they may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus because providers followed unsafe injection procedures.

  12 March 2013 | UPI.com

• Thailand: Activists demand rethink on blood donor HIV risks

  Aids and gender activists have responded to a video suggesting the Red Cross refuses to take blood donations from gays by urging it to screen donors for "risk activities" rather than "risk groups".

  11 March 2013 | Bangkok Post

• Saudi health officials fired over HIV tainted blood

  Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health fired seven senior officials after a 13-year old girl was given HIV tainted blood in a transfusion, Saudi Gazette reported.

  18 February 2013 | ArabianBusiness.com

• HIV Experts Welcome Proposed Legislation to Allow Research on HIV-Infected Organ Donation

  In addition to helping increase access to transplants for HIV-infected patients, the HOPE Act, if passed and signed into law, also has the potential to reduce deaths among those who are on transplant waiting lists and help save Medicare costs, while maintaining provisions that protect public health.

  15 February 2013 | HIV Medicine Association

• Bill would allow studies of organ transplants for HIV patients

  A newly introduced, bipartisan bill would allow federally funded research into organ transplants between two HIV-positive people.

  15 February 2013 | The Hill (blog)

• Mexico Lifts Its Gay Blood Donation Ban

  The new standard bans blood donations from people with HIV or hepatitis and their partners.

  07 January 2013 | Poz magazine news

• Kazakhstan: Shymkent's HIV Scandal, Six Years Later

  Back in 2006, the children were infected with HIV via tainted blood transfusions administered at public hospitals in Shymkent in the South Kazakhstan Region. The infections peeled back the curtain on a public health-care system that was corruption-ridden, and in which disposable syringes were reused, and blood sold for personal profit.

  12 December 2012 | EurasiaNet

• Medical Technician Accused in Hepatitis C Infections Is Indicted on New Charges

  A traveling medical technician who is believed to have infected at least 39 people with hepatitis C through his use of stolen hospital drugs and syringes was indicted late Wednesday in New Hampshire on 14 new charges.

  03 December 2012 | New York Times

• Philippines: HIV-tainted blood donations continue to increase

  The number of units of donated blood contaminated with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rose by 18 percent this year, according to data from the latest Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry. The country is currently experiencing one of the shapest rises in HIV prevalence of any country in the world, largely due to sex between men.

  09 October 2012 | GMA News

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