L’OMS appelle à l’utilisation de seringues «intelligentes»

L’OMS a appelé à utiliser des seringues intelligents -qui se rompent après un seul usage- pour toutes les injections d’ici 2020. La réutilisation des seringues conduit à plus de deux millions d’infections par des maladies comme le VIH et l’hépatite chaque année.

L’OMS a appelé à utiliser des seringues intelligents -qui se rompent après un seul usage- pour toutes les injections d’ici 2020. La réutilisation des seringues conduit à plus de deux millions d’infections par des maladies comme le VIH et l’hépatite chaque année.

La suite en anglais:

Smart syringes that break after one use should be used for injections by 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. It says reusing syringes leads to more than two million people being infected with diseases including HIV and hepatitis each year.

A 2014 study sponsored by WHO, which focused on the most recent available data, estimated that in 2010, up to 1.7 million people were infected with hepatitis B virus, up to 315,000 with hepatitis C virus and as many as 33,800 with HIV through an unsafe injection.

The new WHO injection safety guidelines and policy provide detailed recommendations highlighting the value of safety features for syringes, including devices that protect health workers against accidental needle injury and consequent exposure to infection.

“Adoption of safety-engineered syringes is absolutely critical to protecting people worldwide from becoming infected with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases. This should be an urgent priority for all countries,” said Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, director of the WHO HIV/AIDS department.

WHO is also calling for sheathed needles that prevent doctors accidentally pricking their fingers. This has happened many times during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But they would treble the cost of the syringes and WHO says these would have to be introduced “progressively.”