World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other international agencies have begun an aggressive campaign to halt a global epidemic of lethal diseases spread by contaminated needles.
The plan calls for phasing out use of all standard disposable and reusable syringes in developing countries and replacing them with a new generation of safety syringes that can only be used once. This new safety syringe program is part of an even broader initiative by a coalition of world health agencies, including WHO, UNICEF and the CDC, designed to curb the transmission of potentially deadly viruses through conventional needle use in therapeutic injections as well as in vaccinations.
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