Background Information on injection safety
Injections are a skin puncturing procedure performed with a syringe and needle to introduce a substance for prophylactic, curative, or recreational purposes. Injections can be given intravenously, intramuscularly, intradermally, or subcutaneously. Injections are among the most frequently used medical procedures, with an estimated 20 billion injections administered each year world-wide. A large majority (more than 90%) of these injections are administered for curative purposes (for every vaccination injection, 20 curative injections are administered).
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Misuse and overuse
Find out more about how and to what extent injections are used -
Unsafe practices
The cost of complacency: learn more about unsafe practices world -
Call for action
What we can do against unsafe injection practices -
Success stories
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Country success stories
Intervention success stories that have improved injection safety in both developed and developing countries.