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HIV transmission during medical procedures at hospitals is extremely rare. However, if blood products are not screened and infection control procedures are not followed, transmission can take place. The risk of infection following a needlestick injury is low.

Exposure to HIV through medical procedures

No increase in HIV in blood donations since rules for gay men were relaxed

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11 March 2020
Exposure to HIV through medical procedures

HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

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17 June 2014
Exposure to HIV through medical procedures

Poor infection control procedures lead to HIV transmissions at haemodialysis centre in Saudi Arabia

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4 June 2014
Exposure to HIV through medical procedures

UK healthcare workers with HIV to be cleared for dental and surgical work

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15 August 2013
Employment

UK considering lifting restrictions on health workers with HIV – as long as viral load is undetectable

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1 December 2011
Health services & systems

Whose fear is it anyway? People with HIV and dentists

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1 June 2009
Exposure to HIV through medical procedures

Donated blood sample involved in HIV transmission, even though donation tested for HIV RNA

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26 April 2004