Implementing efforts to improve nutrition and measuring their impact requires suitable
indicators and tools. Indicators of nutritional status are the most common indicators for …

Objective The strict implementation of occupational health and safety policy curbs exposure
to occupational hazards. However, empirical evidence is lacking in the Ghanaian context …

Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) have been reported to be a serious
problem in the healthcare services as they are common causes of illness and mortality …

Background The objective was to assess the knowledge level, attitude, and practice of
health care workers towards standard precautions, and to identify the related factors …

Background Implementing standard precautions (SP) has been a major challenge for health
care workers (HCWs) especially those in developing countries thereby compromising their …

Background People living with HIV (PLHIV) sometimes experience discrimination. There is
little understanding of the causes, forms and consequences of this stigma in Islamic …

Background. Standard precautions are infection control techniques against pathogenic
microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans …

Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of
universal precautions among Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, medical students in …

Background: A large fraction of the world's illness and death is attributable to communicable
diseases. Sixty-two percent and 31% of all deaths in Africa and Southeast Asia, respectively …

Background: Occupationally acquired blood borne pathogens are becoming major killers
globally. Consequently, the practice of Universal Precautions (UP) is key in protecting health …