Aims of SafeHandS

To develop a network of health care workers and institutions to promote:

• Sharing of information between health care workers and institutions about health care worker safety
• Policy development and program implementation to improve health care workers' safety
• Optimal care for people with blood borne viruses (especially HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C) and other communicable diseases
• Practical steps to deal with issues of stigma and discrimination which might otherwise act against optimum health outcomes.

Workshop for the development of an Infection Control Programme by health care
workers in a province in China.