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Given the already critical shortage of health providers and generally weak health systems in the regions most affected by XDR-TB and MDR-TB, anxiety about safety in the health care environment runs high and can dissuade health providers from accepting assignments in these settings. Together with the International Council of Nurses, International Hospital Federation and International Red Cross and Red Crescent, the WMA organised a set of inter-professional workshops on health worker safety in the context of drug-resistant TB in low and middle-income countries. The workshops addressed TB infection protection with the objective of identifying good practices, implementing joint recommendations for facilities and health workers and establishing a working group with a plan of action to communicate the identified practices and recommendations. The first workshop took place in Cape Town South Africa in November 2007, the following in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in March 2009, in Durban, South Africa in June 2009, in Cotonou, Benin in 2010 and in Hangzhou, China in 2011. All infection control and health workers safety workshops are on invitation only.
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