AEGiS-11IAC: HIV contamination of injecting solutions as important factor for activating HIV transmission at nosocomial foci.

11th International AIDS Conference


Vancouver, British Columbia — July 7-12, 1996

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HIV contamination of injecting solutions as important factor for activating HIV transmission at nosocomial foci.

Int Conf AIDS 1996 Jul 7-12; 11:460 (abstract no. Pub.C.1136)
Sauhat SR, Pokrovsky VV, Rindich AA, Rabinovich VD, Vorontsov DV; Regional AIDS Center, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Fax: (8632) 34-30-33, 64-45-50.

The mechanism of activation of HIV transmission at nosocomial foci in South Russia is not clear yet.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the reasons of HIV transmissions at the Shakhty municipal children hospital to concretize the prevention measures.

METHODS: Analysis of space and time relations and medical invasive manipulations done for both 35 sources and HIV recipients and 22 noninfected patients in different periods of nosocomial focus activity. The original computer program was used.

RESULTS: In the period of high focus activity the sources of infections got 5,1 times more invasive manipulations, including 9,1 times more intravenous injections with single total volume more than 10 ml, and 12 times more recurrent injections during the day. This testifies to possibility of contamination the injecting solutions when the low volume syringes were used repeatedly or some injections were introduced in consecutive order during a day with one syringe to one source of HIV.

CONCLUSION: To exclude recurrent use of syringes for one patient, meet the hospital requirements in high volume syringes, to produce the medication in small packages and to control the sterility of injecting solutions - are the important actions for HIV prevention at nosocomial foci.

Keywords: AEGIS, HIV, Syringes, HIV Infections, Drug Contamination, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV-1, HIV Seroprevalence, Hospitals, HIV Antibodies, Solutions, HIV Seropositivity, Single Person, Russia, Child, Human, transmission, ICA11KWDaegis,hiv,syringes,hivinfections,drugcontamination,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,hiv-1,hivseroprevalence,hospitals,hivantibodies,solutions,hivseropositivity,singleperson,russia,child,human,transmission,ica11

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