Medical Workers With Hiv

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Medical worker with HIV

Hello there,I am a European consultant physician in training who contracted HIV 3 years ago. I started meds recently but otherwise am physically well. My colleagues locally have been supportive, but my diagnosis remains secret from my trainers, who...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Dear David, Thank you for your excellent question. On your first point, since you do not perform invasive procedures, you may not be required to inform an employer of your HIV status at all. That policy would be set by the hospital or clinic in... Read more »

Do emergency medical workers need to know if a person has HIV?

If someone tests positive for HIV/AIDS, what happens if this person is, say, in a car wreck and... Read more »

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H. »

pregnanat healtcare worker purposely pricked herself w/needle and now demands i take an hiv test and is getting workers comp

I am HIV negative as of one year ago and am celibate so no reason to have a great fear of carrying... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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Libya's Judicial Council Commutes Death Sentence for Medical Workers in HIV Infection Case

Libya's Supreme Judicial Council on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of six medical workers who were sentenced for allegedly intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, the New York Times reports (Smith, New York Times ,... Read more »

ABC Examines Shortage of Medical Workers to Provide HIV-Positive Children in Lesotho With Treatment

ABC's "World News " on Monday examined how a physician shortage in Lesotho is hindering efforts to provide HIV-positive children in the country with treatment. There are six pediatricians in Lesotho to serve a population of 800,000 children,... Read more »

Medical Workers Sentenced to Death in HIV Infection Case Arrive in Bulgaria, Receive Presidential Pardon

Six medical workers who were imprisoned for more than eight years in Libya for allegedly intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV on Tuesday were pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov after arriving in the country, the... Read more »

Medical Workers Sentenced to Death in HIV Infection Case Were Tortured During Incarceration, Gaddafi's Son Says

The six medical workers released recently from Libyan prison after being sentenced to death for allegedly intentionally infecting hundreds of children with HIV were tortured during their incarceration, Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi -- head of the Gaddafi... Read more »

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needlestick injury (medical worker)

Posted by frankie78, 1 Reply

I know my risk is extremely low, but the more reassurance I get, the better I feel. I work for a medical device reprocessing company and we collect single used devices from the operating room. I was picking up a container one day and a syringe (that... Read more »

i am a health care worker...

Posted by Anonymous

I am a health care worker in Baltimore. Every other patient that
I come into contact with in my clinic is an HIV or AIDS patient.
I would like everyone who has this disease to know that I pray
for a cure everyday, and do my best to help those who... Read more »

read about redcross these dirty rotten workers

Posted by nomoreworry4me

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention International News
UK Soldiers May Have Been Exposed to Contaminated Blood

January 10, 2008

Eighteen British military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan may have received unscreened blood transfused... Read more »

Ex-Lab Worker Questions HIV Test Results

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Ex-Lab Worker Questions HIV Test Results

By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press writer

BALTIMORE - Thousands of patients could have received questionable HIV (news - web sites) test results not just hundreds, as hospital officials have suggested,... Read more »

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