This publication demonstrates intervention success stories that have improved injection safety in both developed and developing countries, proving that positive results are viable in different country settings. Intervention strategies that target all three core components simultaneously have been shown to have the greatest positive effect on improved injection safety.
Unsafe injection practices are an international issue. With an estimated 16 thousand million injections administered annually in developing and transitional countries alone, the importance of promoting safe injection practices is unprecedented. Over the past few decades failures to follow safe injection practices have burdened many developing as well as developed countries with outbreaks of infectious diseases.
WHO strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injection worldwide
The WHO strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections worldwide has four objectives
- formulating national policies and plans for the safe and appropriate use of injections,
- ensuring quality and safety of injection equipment,
- facilitating equitable access to injection equipment,
- achieving appropriate, rational and cost effective use of injections.