How is UNICEF working to guarantee the safety of immunization injections?
Basically, we looked at the problem and asked, What can we do about it? Make sure doctors get paid more? Not going to happen. Make the syringe device cheaper? Not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Instead, we believe the answer is to perform injections with an auto-disabling device that is impossible to reuse. In the auto-disable syringes, the needle is stuck to the syringe you can’t break it off. Once you pull out the plunger and push in fluid once, this triggers a mechanism that makes it impossible to pull the plunger out again. Q: How can poor countries afford the new devices? A: The price of these syringes is coming down. At first, the price for traditional syringes was about US3 cents and the auto-disable syringe (AD syringe) US15 cents. This posed a problem for poorer countries and encouraged syringe reuse. Now the price for AD syringes is less than US6 cents, with traditional syringes at US4 cents. So, with the difference in price being so much lower, this makes our job much eas
