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Lack of funding and resources, combined with competing demands, help explain why only a handful of states have hepatitis prevention plans in place, according to a recently completed survey.
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With hundreds of HIV interventions available, community planning groups often are at a loss for deciding which ones to use. Now a new tool will allow health departments to enter local data and determine which programs are most cost-effective.
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Facts: HIV/AIDS in the South
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has grown to include about 1.6 million people who live in high-income countries, including the estimated 76,000 people who became infected with the virus in 2002.
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Fatal heart attacks following smallpox vaccination of health care workers threaten to further derail a struggling government immunization program already suffering from a striking lack of hospital participation.
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Despite 9/11 and its anthrax aftermath, the majority of hospitals and their surrounding communities have slipped back into complacency and are dangerously unprepared for bioterrorism or other mass casualty events, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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As previously reported in Bioterrorism Watch, top government health officials are pushing mass smallpox vaccinations in the health care system because they fear that Iraq possesses smallpox virus with bioengineered . . . transmission characteristics.
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Much discussion has centered on the physiological signs and symptoms of the various weapons of mass destruction, but what about the psychological state of the public after an attack?
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Significant planning and organization is necessary to accomplish an efficient hospital-based smallpox vaccination program, but it can be done successfully, reports Kathy Lynn Emanuelsen, RN, Med, director of occupational health at Hartford (CT) Hospital.
