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Achieving Effective Sharps Waste Management in GAVI Host Countries

This document presents an analysis of safer sharps-waste management activities, including practical options using available or emerging technologies. The analysis includes an estimate of the baseline burden of disease from unsafe injection practices, the proposed solutions' potential impact on burden of disease, and a cost-effectiveness analysis of the proposed solutions.

Corporate author(s): PATH

Publication date: June 2006

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Achieving Effective Sharps Waste Management in GAVI Host Countries

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Region: Global

See also:

Health technologies > Safe injection

Health technologies > Health care waste management

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Contact: PATH Publications
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