AIDE-MEMOIRE for a national strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections

The document describes three elements of a strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections:

■ Behaviour change among patients and health-care workers to decrease injection overuse and achieve injection safety ■ The availability of necessary equipment and supplies, namely a transition to the exclusive use of WHO prequalified AD/ RUP/SIP* syringes for therapeutic injections; ■ The management of sharps waste