Easy to remember slides for medical students on prevention of AIDS among health care workers. Includes slides on exposures, diagnosis, treatments, reporting and employment.

1. AIDS
PREVENTION
Mini Sood

2. Occupational risks
Who gets
injured?
Doctors,
nurses
Surgeons
Obstetricians Anesthetists
Paramedics
handling soiled
products

3. Transmission
•How and why, they get injured
• The infection occurs through the virus getting injected through
cuts, wounds, needle pricks and any other breaks in the skin
surfaces, while handling HIV positive individuals, without
protection.
• Through needle pricks amongst drug users.
• During a blood transfusion.
• During pregnancy from mother to baby(MTCT)

4. Occupational risks
How often do
they get
injured?
Needle stick
injury- 1 in
10,000
350,000 Injuries
per year- 1000
sharps per day
Cuts- Wounds Abrasions

5. RATIO OFTHETYPES OF
SHARPS AND INJURIES

6. THE SHARP ANDTHE EVENT
AND INFECTION

7. Needle stick injuries-When and
how- with methods to prevent
Load or
reposition
Load or
reposition the
needle into the
needle holder
Pass
Pass the needle
hand-to-hand
between team
members
Sew
Sew toward the
surgeon or
assistant while
the surgeon or
assistant holds
back other
tissue
Tie
Tie the tissue
with the needle
still is attached
Leave
Leave the
needle on the
operative field
Place
Place needles
in an over-filled
sharps
container
Place
Place needles
in a poorly
located sharps
container

8. Risks and transmission
Other non -sexual modes of exposure to
the contaminated blood
Handling soiled linen, tissues, body fluids
like urine, stool, blood, vomitus, liquor
amnii without the protection of gloves.

9. Background statistics
•Costs of Injuries and Exposures

10. Prevention of
infection
Infection control policies in theatre
areas
Cleaning
Disinfectants
Autoclaving instruments
Fumigation

11. Testing of an
exposed Health
care worker

12. TREATMENT
REGIMENS AFTER
POSTEXPOSURE
PROPHYLAXSIS

13. EMPLOYMENT
AFTER HIV
POSITIVE STATUS

15. THANKYOU