List of resource material from OSHA standards to support
groups for some areas.
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Document Name & Link to Document
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Description
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File Size /Type**
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A
Comprehensive Approach to Preventing Blood-Borne Infectious
Among IV Drug Users
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Many
health departments, community-based organizations, agencies,
and providers are working hard to reach and work with IDUs to
help them change their behaviors and reduce or eliminate their
risk of acquiring or transmitting infection.
The
problem of injection drug use and transmission of blood-borne
disease persists, however. Solutions are hampered by society's
pervasive negative attitudes toward IDUs, a lack of
understanding of drug addiction as a treatable biomedical and
psychological disease, limited funding for prevention and
treatment, restrictive laws and regulations, and polarized
philosophical viewpoints among various organizations and
providers. |
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Doctor
Denies Blame in Hepatitis C Outbreak
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Dr.
Tahir Javed, who is accused of using unsanitary practices that
caused the hepatitis C infections of 99 patients at his
Nebraska cancer clinic has denied any wrongdoing. |
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Drug-related
AIDS & Hepatitis C-among African Americans and Latinos |
We
have watched people die from this diseases; now they must
learn how to live with HIV/AIDS.
But why can’t we help prevent this disease by
providing clean needles? |
Pdf
148 kb
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Greybook
AIDS Hepatitis C Virus
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Federal OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Directive-a resource primer
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PDF / 509KB
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Japanese
woman dies after HBV infection from tainted blood
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A
Japanese women died last June after being infected with
hepatitis B from a tainted blood donor, a report said, adding
to renewed concerns over laxity in the nation's blood
screening process. |
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Neb. Targets Doctor in Hepatitis Death
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The state began disciplinary
action Tuesday against a cancer doctor linked to a widespread
hepatitis C outbreak, citing poor infection control at his
clinic |
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New
database to help fight against hepatitis C
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Los Alamos' database is the
first step in a five-year lab project funded by the National
Institutes of Health. The second step is a database that
catalogues immunology information about hepatitis C, again
mirroring the technology Kuiken and her fellow scientists
developed for the HIV immunology database. The hepatitis C
immunology database should be up and running next year |
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Resource guide for Colorado-Hepatitis C |
Groups and listings for people living in Colorado |
158 kb pdf |
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Vaginal
laceration is a risk factor for Hepatitis C transmission in
childbirth
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Children delivered vaginally
and whose mothers sustained a perineal or vaginal laceration
had a six-fold higher risk of hepatitis C virus (Hepatitis C Virus) than
vaginally delivered children whose mothers had no laceration,
according to a retrospective study of 73 Hepatitis C Virus-positive pregnant
women who gave birth to 75 children |
Pdf
61 kb
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Viral hepatitis & drug
use |
Millions of Americans have
viral hepatitis. It
is particularly significant problem among injection drug
users. Growing awareness of this problem is leading to new
initiative, but efforts to prevent these diseases and reduce
their medical, financial, and social costs face challenges. |
Pdf 61 kb
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