How does CDC promote injection safety?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked with several partners to promote injection safety and reduce the risk of medical transmission of HIV. The CDC and the World Health Organization took lead roles in creating the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), which developed injection safety strategies. In addition, CDC partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop an injection safety plan that includes training personnel to improve medical safety and strengthening systems to reduce unsafe injections. Injection safety strategies CDC supports include: • Encouraging countries without national safe injection policies to design activities using SIGN principles; • Assisting facilities to safe injection practices among healthcare workers and community members; • Assisting facilities to purchase safe injection equipment and supplies; • Assisting facilities to safely manage the disposal of sharps.
