Protecting health workers from biological hazards: Success stories and good practices globally

Globally, health care facilities employ over 59 million workers who are exposed to a complex array of health and safety hazards. In 2003, WHO conducted a pilot in Vietnam, Tanzania and South Africa, producing the toolkit “Protecting Health Care Workers (HCWs) from Needlestick injuries",  WHO Collaborating Centers are working with WHO Regional Offices, governments and Public Health Institutions and cooperating countries in implementing the “Preventing Occupational Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens among HCWs” project.  These project implementations have produced 13,000 trainers in Latin-America, 700 in Middle Eastern countries and over 7000 in Africa for a total of approximately 20,000 trainers who have received the training trough the train-the-trainer approach so far globally.