(7) AIDS and Radiographer(3. Health Physics)

Abstract

An outline on how AIDS is contracted and passed on from one person to another. A brief summary on the present statistics of local and global situation of HIV contracted positive cases and expected statistics for the year 2000. To bring to the awareness of the Radiographers the possibility of contracting such disease in their field of work. The important steps that need to be taken to educate Radiographers on the control of the spread of the disease in the X-ray department due to handling of patients who are HIV positive. Precaution dan special nursing care when handling such patients in the radiodiagnostic imaging department.