Occupational HIV Transmission and Prevention among Health Care Workers

Estimado colega , les dejo este FACT SHEET del CDC sobre la prevención de la transmisión del VIH en trabajadores de la salud.
Saludos
Dr. Carlos Erazo
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/PDF/hcw.pdf

Health care workers should assume that the blood and other body fluids from all patients are potentially infectious.
They should therefore follow infection control precautions at all times.
These precautions include:

• routinely using barriers (such as gloves and/ or goggles) when anticipating contact with blood or body fluids,
• immediately washing hands and other skin surfaces after contact with blood or body fluids, and
• carefully handling and disposing of sharp instruments during and after use.