Risk Control Countermeasures in HIV Occupational Exposure for Healthcare Workers and Police Officers

Abstract

In recent years, due to changes in the social governance environment, there have be en a number of causative factors that should not be overlooked in relation to HIV occupational exposure among health care workers and front-line workers who handle HIV-infected crime cases in China. Beijing Normal University project team deploys the satisfaction with the effectiveness for occupational exposure prevention and control on the special police brigade , in search of more feasible risk control countermeasures. In contrast to the “lack of protection knowledge and skills” and the “fluke mentality about the risk of exposure”, it is more important to pay attention to the social discrimination and other factors that cause some people with HIV to “deliberately conceal their exposure” and even “commit the crime of malicious transmission”. In the prevention and risk control of HIV occupational exposure, we should aim for “zero infection”, fully implement the concept of “universal protection”, refine the rules of safe disposal of sharp instruments, clarify the principles of timely treatment, comprehensive reporting, confidentiality and informed consent after exposure, strengthen life education, anti-discrimination and de-stigmatization education, and improve the special support fund and insurance provisions for occupational exposure.