*SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK* SIGNPOST *SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK* EXTRA Post00520 Update: 10th Annual Meeting Of SIGN 7 November 2009 CONTENTS 1. 10th Annual Meeting Of The Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) This edition of SIGNpost is located at: http://uqconnect.net/signfiles/Archives/SIGN-POST00520.txt and is printer friendly. If your email reader truncates your SIGNpost - click on the link above to download the complete posting. Please send your requests, notes on progress and activities, articles, news, and other items for posting to: sign@uq.net.au Normally, items received by Tuesday will be posted in the Wednesday edition. Subscribe or un-subscribe by email to: sign@uq.net.au, sign@who.int More information follows at the end of this SIGNpost! Visit the WHO injection safety website and the SIGN Alliance Secretariat at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/en/ __________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________*____________________________________ 1. 10th Annual Meeting Of The Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) From the updated SIGN website: http://injectionsafety.org/ __________________________________________________________________________ 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK (SIGN) 30 November -2 December 2009, WHO/HQ, Geneva PERFORMANCE, QUALITY AND SAFETY CONSULTATIVE MEETING WITH THE INDUSTRY 3 - 4 December 2009, WHO/HQ, Geneva The Injection Safety programme and the Secretariat of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) in the Department of Essential Health Technologies is organizing the 10th Annual Meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network which will be held from 30 November to 2 December 2009 at WHO/HQ, Geneva. This meeting will run back to back with the Performance, Quality and Safety consultation with industry organized by the Quality Safety and Standard Unit in the Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals on 3 and 4 December 2009 at WHO/HQ, Geneva. * More about the meetings [pdf 153kb] http://www.who.int/injection_safety/sign_pqs_meetings.pdf * Outline POW SIGN09 [pdf 123kb] http://www.who.int/injection_safety/outline_pow_sign09.pdf * Outline POW PQS09 [pdf 46kb] http://www.who.int/injection_safety/outline_pow_pqs09.pdf * Information for participants [pdf 21kb] http://www.who.int/injection_safety/how_to_get_around_geneva.pdf SIGN 10th Anniversary At the time of launch in October 1999, the SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK was established and its Secretariat was hosted at WHO with a mission: "to achieve safe and appropriate use of injections world-wide by concerted action under a common strategic framework" and "to focus on those procedures that contribute most to the transmission of blood borne pathogens." Ten years later: 1. Injection safety has gained visibility worldwide. 2. SIGN budget has increased exponentially. 3. SIGN has enjoyed continuous WHO support. 4. SIGN has provided increased support to countries. 5. SIGN has significantly reduced the burden of unsafe injections globally. 6. SIGN has increased communication through the weekly email newsletter SIGNpost. * Highlights of the annual SIGN meeting [pdf 208kb] http://www.who.int/entity/injection_safety/sign_meeting_highlights.pdf __________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________*____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ * SAFETY OF INJECTIONS brief yourself at: www.injectionsafety.org A fact sheet on injection safety is available at: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs231/en/index.html * Visit the WHO injection safety website and the SIGN Alliance Secretariat at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/en/ Download the latest injection safety Best Practices review at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Files/BestPracticesJul2003.pdf Use the Toolbox at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/toolbox/en/ Subscribe or un-subscribe by email to: sign@uq.net.au, sign@who.int or on subscribe online at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/sign/en/ Get SIGN files on the web at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Files/ get SIGNpost archives at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Archives/?M=D The SIGN Secretariat, the Department of Essential Health Technologies, WHO, Avenue Appia 20, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Telephone: +41 22 791 3680, Facsimile: +41 22 791 4836, E- mail: sign@who.int _____________________________________*____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ SIGN meets annually to aid collaboration and synergy among SIGN network participants worldwide. The 2009 SIGN annual meeting will be held from 30 November to Wednesday 2 December 2009 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva Switzerland. The PQS (performance Quality and Safety) consultative meeting with the industry, will be held back to back with the SIGN meeting on 3rd and 4th December 2009. Get the final report of the SIGN Meeting 2008, Moscow, Russian Federation [2.36Mb] at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/2008MeetingReport.pdf Many SIGN files can be opened in Acrobat Reader. To access all the features in Adobe Acrobat documents download the Acrobat Reader at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Translation tools are available at: http://www.google.com/language_tools or http://www.freetranslation.com __________________________________________________________________________ All members of the SIGN Forum are invited to submit messages, comment on any posting, or to use the forum to request technical information in relation to injection safety. The comments made in this forum are the sole responsibility of the writers and does not in any way mean that they are endorsed by any of the organizations and agencies to which the authors may belong. Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and does not imply endorsement. Contributions to: sign@uq.net.au or use your reply button! The SIGN Forum welcomes new subscribers who are involved in injection safety. Please subscribe by sending an email to: sign@who.int _____________________________________*____________________________________ The SIGN Internet Forum was established at the initiative of the World Health Organization's Department of Essential Health Technologies. The SIGN Forum is moderated by Allan Bass and is hosted on the University of Queensland computer network. http://www.uq.edu.au __________________________________________________________________________