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Lessons learned from a community based intervention to improve injection safety in Pakistan
BACKGROUND: A national study in 2007 revealed that in Pakistan the prevalence of hepatitis B is 2.5% and for hepatitis C it is 5%. Unsafe injections have been identified as one of the reasons for the spread of these infections. Trained and untrained providers routinely perform unsafe practices prima...
Autores principales: | Altaf, Arshad, Shah, Sharaf Ali, Shaikh, Kulsoom, Constable, Fiona M, Khamassi, Selma |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23607289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-159 |
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