Consolidated Guidelines

2.4.2 Key References and Supporting WHO Guidelines

Adams J, Bartram J, Chartier Y. Essential environmental health standards in health care. Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Organization. 2008.

Baussano I, Bugiani M, Carosso A et al. Risk of tuberculin conversion among healthcare workers and the adoption of preventive measures. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2007;64(3):161-166.

Churchyard G, Scano F, Grant A et al. Tuberculosis preventive therapy in the era of HIV infection: overview and research priorities. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2007;196(Suppl 1):S52-62.

2.2.2 Key References and Supporting WHO Guidelines

Asia-Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. (August 2009). Research Finding Highlights: Access to HIV-related services in positive women, men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG) and injecting drug users. Report.

Connelly P, & Rosen S. (2006). Treatment of HIV/AIDS at South Africa's largest employers: Myth and reality. South African Medical Journal = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Geneeskunde, 96(2), 128-133.

2.1.1 Introduce new, or refine existing, national policies that ensure priority access for health workers and their families to services for the prevention, treatment and care for HIV and TB.

There are currently no existing guidelines that specifically address the issue of priority access for health workers to services for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and TB, which, of course, is why the current Guidelines are needed. However, WHO documents do designate health workers as a high risk group (WHO, 2008) As noted in the Rationale for this Guideline, there is an abundance of evidence that HIV-infected health workers are at increased risk as a result of exposures they may confront in the course of their work. (e.g. Buve et al. 1994; Chanda at al. 2006; Corbett at al.