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URC/CHS News Archives | Contact us | Home URC/CHS NewsPresentation on Medical Injection Safety Project, Namibia Offered at 2006 SIGN meeting Results of URC’s Medical Injection Safety Project in Namibia were presented at WHO’s annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) which took place this year in Mexico City, Mexico. The Injection Safety and Infection Control Meeting, held October 23-25, 2006, was attended by 151 participants from 51 countries. Representing the Nambia project were Ms. Christine Gordon, Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS); Dr. Frantz Simeon, Chief of Party, URC/Namibia; and Ms. Stacy Kancijanic, URC/Bethesda. The meeting’s objectives were to: exchange information regarding global progress towards the safe and appropriate use of injections worldwide, as well as to look at advances of various injection safety country projects, evaluate steps forward in health care worker protection, review global progress in infection prevention and control activities, and study available waste disposal options. WHO will post the meeting report on its website at http://www.who.int/injection_safety/en/. Ms. Gordon’s presentation highlighted the approach the MOHSS has developed with URC support to scale up medical safe injection activities to 10 regions and 169 health facilities in Namibia. She also presented data on the project’s impact on reducing unnecessary injections from an average of 7.4 dosages per patient per treatment in the 4th quarter of 2004 to 1.9 dosages in the 2nd quarter of 2006. The project has trained over 500 health care workers and exposed more than 350 members of grassroots organizations to safe injection messages. For more information on Namibia’s Medical Injection Safety Project, please contact Dr. Frantz Simeon at fsimeon@urc-chs.com Download Medical Injection Safety Program, Namibia, presented by Ms. Christine Gordon, Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services and co-authored by Dr. Frantz Simeon and Ms. Stacy Kancijanic, Program Associate, URC/HQ
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