BLOODBORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASES: HIV/AIDS, HEPATITIS B, HEPATITIS C

Surveillance

Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN)
A free, web-based system developed by NIOSH that enables facilities to track, analyze, and interpret workplace injuries that occur among their healthcare workers, using data that is already being collected.

Hepatitis B Surveillance
A CDC statistics and surveillance page on Hepatitis B.

Hepatitis C Surveillance
A CDC statistics and surveillance page on Hepatitis C.

National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
CDC’s national healthcare-associated infection tracking system that provides facilities, states, and regions with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

The National Surveillance System for Healthcare Workers (NaSH)
Summary Report for Blood and Body Fluid Exposure Data Collected from Participating Healthcare Facilities (June 1995 through December 2007)
This report describes the variety of occupational exposures to blood and body fluids that occur among healthcare providers.

Sharps Injuries Among Hospital Workers in Massachusetts
Data and Statistics Reports from 2002 - 2010
Massachusetts Sharps Injury Surveillance System
Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Bloodborne Pathogens Injury Data Reports, 2001-2010
Texas Department of State Health Services

Worker Health Chartbook 2004: Bloodborne Infections and Percutaneous Exposures
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2004-146
Provides data from the CDC about two of the major occupational bloodborne infections—hepatitis B and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS

AOHP Year Two National Survey
EXPO-S.T.O.P. 2012: Year Two of a National Survey of Sharps Injuries and Mucocutaneous Blood Exposures Among Healthcare Workers in U.S. Hospitals

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report
The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report contains information about U.S. AIDS and HIV case reports, including data by state, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure to HIV, sex, race/ethnicity, age group, vital status, and case definition category.

Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet)
EPINet was developed to provide standardized methods for recording percutaneous injuries and blood and body fluid contacts, in order to assist hospitals in complying with the OSHA recordkeeping requirements of the December 1991 Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.