We will also seek to cooperate with other organizations already working in this area, including the US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Currently, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health’s Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), PEPFAR is helping develop national injection safety guidelines, PI3K Inhibitor Library mw providing training related to dissemination of these guidelines, and procuring sharps-disposal equipment for eight focus provinces. As part of our project, we will assess what we may contribute to these efforts. We will also
assess how we may contribute to the development and nationwide dissemination of guidelines for proper sterilization of medical equipment, such as that used for dialysis. The goal will be to help ensure that health-care providers nationwide will have clear guidance on the risks and absolute
unacceptability of re-use of contaminated needles, syringes, and inadequately sterilized medical equipment, and that all health-care settings will adhere to the guidelines for injection safety and proper disposal of injection equipment, as well as to guidelines for proper sterilization of medical equipment. Within this task, we will also assess how to Nivolumab best reach traditional medicine practitioners with clear information on these risks, and training on properly following injection safety guidelines. As part of this task, we will also assess how we might provide additional resources to help expand the success of harm reduction projects, including needle/syringe exchange programs. Although most such efforts to date have focused on reducing HIV infection rates, there is also an extremely high risk of acquisition of both HBV and HCV from needles and syringes re-used by IDU. As discussed in the main text of this paper, a recent peer educator-based syringe/needle exchange program carried
out in northern Viet Nam showed both the feasibility medchemexpress of carrying out such programs, and their potential to reduce unsafe injection practices while providing safe disposal of used injection equipment, thus protecting community members from accidental exposure to contaminated equipment. As part of our task we will reach out to the ongoing programs working in this area to see how we might contribute. It will also be important to address the risk of infections from commercial re-use of needles and other sharp instruments in tattoo parlors, and of razors in barbershops. As part of this task, we will investigate the best approaches for reaching out to these commercial enterprises in order to provide guidance on eliminating unsafe practices by barbers and tattoo artists nationwide.
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