WHO Best Practices for Injections and Related Procedures Toolkit

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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 main areas covered by the toolkit are:

1. bloodborne pathogens transmitted through unsafe injection practices;

2. relevant elements of standard precautions and associated barrier protection;

3. best injection and related infection prevention and control practices;

4. occupational risk factors and their management.