The new WHO guidelines provide recommended steps for safe phlebotomy and reiterate accepted principles for drawing, collecting blood and transporting blood to laboratories/blood banks.
The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2010, 4, 33-37
Reprinted from Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, No. 10, october 2010
Collection of country-level good practices
Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean
UNAIDS/10.03E / JC1767E (English original, March 2010) ISBN 978 92 9 173849 6
“towards quality health and social welfare services”
Towards Malaria Elimination
The EHSP in Botswana seeks to attain universal coverage of high-quality package of essential health services. The EHSP is an integrated collection of cost-effective interventions, promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative, that address the main diseases, injuries and risk factors that affe...ct the population. The EHSP has two key purposes:
1) Provide a standardized package of basic services which forms the core of service delivery in all primary health care facilities
2) Promote a redistribution of health services by providing equitable access, especially in underserved areas, population, etc.
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UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance