Trivia: Items from the International AIDS Conference, Part 1

• We do not know how many healthcare workers have occupationally-acquired AIDS in Canada and elsewhere, and published reports of documented cases or possible occupationally-acquired HIV cases greatly underestimate the number of infected healthcare workers, especially nurses. As an example, in April 2006, Heath Canada published cumulative reports of eight healthcare workers with occupationally-acquired AIDS, while the Workers Compensation Board of Canada data shows that 109 registered nurses had been compensated for time lost as a result of occupationally-acquired HIV during the seven years between 1998–2004.

• A Polish study looked at 298 HIV exposures in 2003–2004, of which 131 were occupational exposures in healthcare workers, and found that healthcare workers started post-exposure prophylaxis earlier than other populations, but unlike other populations, frequently didn't follow the full post-exposure prophylaxis schedule.

• Nurse (4,307 jobs)

• Allied Health (2,423 jobs)

• MD (8,281 jobs)

• Other (1,164 jobs)