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BD strives to
provide important up-to-date information to those in the healthcare industry. BD remains
current by examining issues relevant to private industries, international aid and
development agencies, and governments around the world.
The links found here provide some of the most current information on immunization and
injection safety.
- Safe Immunization:
- Facts About Unsafe Injection:
- WHO
Fact Sheet - Safety on injections
A brief background
Facts and figures
A glossary
- Injection
Safety: a Global challenge

Y.J.F. Hutlin & R.T. Chen, Bulletin of the WHO, 1999, 77 (10)
- Unsafe
injections in the developing world and transmission of bloodborne
pathogens: a review

L. Simonsen, A. Kane, J. Lloyd, M.Zaffran & M. Kane
- Transmission
of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency viruses
through unsafe injections in the developing world: model-based
regional estimates

A. Kane, J. Lloyd, M. Zaffran, L. Simonsen & M. Kane
- Safety
of immunization injections in Africa: not simply a problem
of logistics

M. Dicko, A.-Q.O. Oni, S. Gavinet, S. Kone, L. Pierre, & B
Jacquet
- Cost of Unsafe Injection:
- How to Improve Injection Safety:
- Safety
of injections
WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA Joint statement on the use of auto-disable
syringes in immunization services 
- Strategies
for safe injections

Battersby, R. Feilden, P. Stoeckel, A. Da Silva, C. Nelson & A. Bass7
- Best
infection control practices for intradermal, subcutaneous,
and intramuscular needle injections

Yvan Hutin, Anja Hauri, Linda Chiarello, Mary Catlin, Barbara
Stilwell, Tesfamicael Ghebrehiwet, Julia Garner, & the Members
of the Injection Safety Best Practices Development Group
- Model-based
estimates of risks of disease transmission and economic costs
of seven injection devices in sub-Saharan Africa

Donatus U. Ekwueme, Bruce G. Weniger & Robert T. Chen
- Safety
of mass immunization campaigns

- BD Products In Use Around The World:
- Introducing
auto-disable syringes to the national immunization program
in Madagascar

Paul K. Drain, Josoa S. Ralaivao, Alexander Rakotonandrasana & Mary A. Carnell
- Safety,
effectiveness and ease of use of a non-reusable syringe in
a developing country immunization program

Steinglass, D. Boyd, M. Grabowsky, A. G. Laghari, M.A. Khan,
A. Qavi & P. Evans
- Home
delivery of heat-stable vaccines in Indonesia:outreach immunization
with a prefilled, single-use injection device

Sutanto, I.M. Suarnawa, C.M. Nelson, T. Stewart & T. Indijati
Soewarso
- Fact About Technology Transfer:
- International Agencies:
- US Government Agencies:
- Vaccine and Immunization Information:
- Other Health-Related Links:
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