Maglio I; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 410 (abstract no. 23346).
Seccion Riesgo Medico Legal Hospital, Muniz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
OBJECTIVES: Based on the study of legal, clinical and bioethical dilemmas which aroused from different occupational accidents in an infectious diseases hospital, a proposal of institutional harm prevention programme for occupational accidents in HIV/AIDS was developed. PROJECT: The impact of HIV seroconversion in health-care workers after accidental exposure to HIV, locally and internationally, was studied. The social constructions as regards risk by fear of contagion were determined together with an evaluation of the health-care worker's risk of acquiring the infection. Information about the determination of the risk of transmission from health-care workers to patients was compiled. Based on the observation done, a programme of harm prevention was designed as well as models of informed consent to report accidents and cases of HIV infection in health care workers. RESULTS: Based on the implementation of the programme we obtained: a better acceptance of the fulfillment of preventive and biosecurity measures, calmness in the care group about the post-exposure covering, fall down of occupational accident rates, clearness in the different levels of responsibility and consolidation of and adequate legal framework to prevent harm from discrimination to the health-care workers HIV infected by implementing informed consents which reasonably protect the interests of the institution, patients and health-care group. LESSON LEARNED: A harm prevention programme on occupational accidents from an anthropological, legal and bioethical perspective allowed an integral comprehension of the problem which gradually improved the acceptance of the measures and the occupational conditions.
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Keywords:
- Accidents, Occupational
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Delivery of Health Care
- HIV
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Facilities
- Health Personnel
- Humans
- Population Groups
- methods
- therapy
Other ID:
UI: 102228976
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