HIV/AIDS in the Health Care Environment

1. Introduction
   • Facts about...HIV/AIDS and health care workers
   • At least 32 workers infected with HIV on job, CDC says
   • Surveillance for Occupationally Acquired HIV Infection -- United States, 1981-1992 (MMWR Report)
   • HIV and the Health Care Worker (Audiovisual Review)
2. OSHA Information
   • Bloodborne Pathogens Final Standard: Summary of Key Provisions (OSHA Fact Sheet)
   • OSHA fact sheets
   • OSHA regional offices
   • Other OSHA publications
3. OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
   • Bloodborne Pathogens: The OSHA Standard
   • Bloodborne Pathogens in the Workplace: For Healthcare Facilities
   • Bloodborne Pathogens Series
   • The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: How It Affects You. How It Protects You
4. OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: Audiovisual Reviews
   • The Final Standard: Preventing Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Viruses
   • For Your Protection: The OSHA Regulations on Bloodborne Pathogens
   • OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standards: Compliance in the Clinical Laboratory
   • OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: An AHA Update
   • Bloodborne Diseases in the Workplace: Planning and Training Kit
   • Protecting Yourself from AIDS
   • Protecting Yourself from AIDS & Hepatitis B - OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
   • Protecting Yourself from Bloodborne Pathogens
5. Universal Precautions: Audiovisual Reviews
   • Any Questions? The Universal Precautions Explained
   • Preventing Blood-Borne Infections in the Health Care Setting
   • Universal Precautions
   • Universal Precautions: A Personal Priority
   • Universal Precautions: AIDS and Hepatitis B Prevention for Healthcare Workers
   • Universal Precautions: Preventing AIDS at Work
6. Infection Control: Audiovisual Reviews
   • First Responders: Infection Control from Theory to Practice
   • Learning Health Care in the Age of AIDS
   • Of Critical Importance: AIDS Precautions in Radiology
   • Reducing the Risks of Blood-Borne Disease Transmission in Orthopaedic Surgery
   • Safety Precautions for the High-Risk Autopsy: Reduce Your Risk
   • Surgery in the Age of AIDS: Prevention of Viral Transmission in the Operating Room
7. Print Materials
   • A Curriculum Guide for Public-Safety and Emergency-Response Workers: Prevention of Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis B Virus (Book Review)
   • Universal Precautions: Policies, Procedures, and Resources (Book Review)
   • Bibliography - Books - OSHA's Bloodborne Standard
   • Posters (Channing L. Bete Company)
   • Scriptographic Booklets (Channing L. Bete Company)
8. CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse Materials
   • Brochures
   • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports
     • Surveillance & Epidemiology
     • Guidelines & Recommendations
     • Testing & Counseling
     • Tuberculosis
     • Case Definition of AIDS
   • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Compilations
   • Other Reports
   • MMWR Report Series - Ordering Information
9. Information from CDC
   • Surveillance for Occupationally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (MMWR)
   • Contacts for physicians and for infection control and occupational health professionals
   • Facts About...HIV/AIDS and Health Care Workers (update of the section included in Part I of this series)
   • Answers from CDC to questions concerning prevention of HIV transmission during dental procedures (CDC Bulletin)
   • Answers from CDC to questions prompted by the MMWR article on patient exposures to HIV during nuclear medicine procedures (CDC Bulletin)
10. Selected Journal References
    • Occupational Exposure - OSHA
    • Occupational Exposure - Needlestick Injuries
    • Occupational Exposure - Counseling
11. Information Resources
    • Selected Journal References - Occupational Exposure - Zidovudine Prophylaxis
    • Why Me: Dealing With and Occupational Exposure to a Bloodborne Virus (Audiovisual Review)
    • Working Together: Needlestick Prevention (Audiovisual Review)
    • Prevention Point (Audiovisual Review)
    • Why Take the Risk? A Program on Sharps Safety (Audiovisual Review)
12. Information from CDC
    • Questions and answers from CDC on HIV transmission in health- care settings (CDC Bulletin)
13. CDC Bulletins
    • Statement from CDC concerning the latest data on HIV/AIDS and health-care workers (CDC Bulletin)
    • Statement from CDC concerning "lookback" investigations of the risk of HIV transmission from an infected health-care worker to a patient (CDC Bulletin)
    • Statement from CDC concerning a letter in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome about the use of bleach to deactivate HIV in health-care settings (CDC Bulletin)
    • Statement from CDC concerning the transmission of HIV (CDC Bulletin)
    • Questions and answers from CDC concerning the possibility of HIV transmission through touching the genitals or semen, vaginal secretions, or blood of an infected person (CDC Bulletin)
14. HIV/AIDS In Dental Practice
    • Answer from CDC to a question concerning a letter in Nature about HIV transmission in a Florida dental practice
    • Dentist's patient is sixth with HIV
    • Current Trends--Update: Investigations of Persons Treated by HIV-Infected Health-Care Workers -- United States (MMWR)
15. Other Information Resources
    • Manuals
    • Monographs
    • Reports
16. Other Information Resources
    • Audiovisuals
17. Table of Contents
    • this Table of Contents
    • Table: Health-care workers with documented and possible occupationally acquired AIDS/HIV infection, by occupation, reported through March 1993, United States