Introduction: Biosafety during lab work is an important concern in developing countries.
Some critical issues concerning biosafety are lack of training, exceeding workload, working …

Introduction: An investigation estimates that needle-stick and sharps injuries affect about 3.5
million individuals on the global level. In healthcare workers nurses and physicians appear …

Background: Health care workers are entitled to safe working conditions and the
organizations have the responsibility to provide the same for their employees (HCW). In this …

Objectives: To determine the population at risk, risk factors, and outcome of occupational
exposure to blood and body fluids in health care providers. Materials and Methods …

Background: The ultimate goal of all healthcare workers (HCWs) is to maintain a healthy
population and environment, and to adequately manage any condition that might constitute …

The extent of occupational injuries among health care workers in central Africa, particularly
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is not documented. We sought to determine the …

Latinos in the US are disproportionately affected by chronic liver disease, which is the sixth
most common cause of death among this group. In Mexico, cirrhosis and other liver diseases …

Occupational exposure to sharp items or body fluid splash is a hazard for health care
personnel via transmission of blood-borne viruses through such exposures. To determine …

Background: Mortuary workers like other health workers are exposed to blood borne
pathogens at work. A baseline assessment is important to plan for programmes to safeguard …

Hepatitis B is a global infectious disease with estimated two billions of the world population
have contracted the infection, of them there are 350 thousand with chronic infection …