CommentEngaging health-care workers to reduce tuberculosis transmission
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Agents of change: The role of healthcare workers in the prevention of nosocomial and occupational tuberculosis
2017, Presse MedicaleCitation Excerpt :Alarmingly despite the availability of PPEs (i.e. respirators for staff and surgical masks for patients), respirator fit testing was also not available at any of these reference centres [32]. Accurate surveillance and reporting of TB disease in HCWs in LMICs is crucial to gaining a better understanding of the epidemiology of TB in this high-risk population [39]. Although WHO published recommendations on their global strategy of occupational health for all in 1994 [40] and released their 10-year Global Plan of Action for Workers’ Health in 2007 [41], only 31 countries have ratified the Convention on Occupational Health Services [42] and it has been estimated that only 5 to 10% of workers in developing countries have access to adequate occupational health services [43].
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