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  2. Needlestick injury - Wikipedia

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    A needlestick injury is the penetration of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object that has been in contact with blood, tissue or other body fluids before the exposure. [1] Even though the acute physiological effects of a needlestick injury are generally negligible, these injuries can lead to transmission of blood-borne diseases ...

  3. Needle and syringe programmes - Wikipedia

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    A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It is based on the philosophy of harm reduction that attempts to reduce the risk factors for blood-borne ...

  4. Aaj Tak - Wikipedia

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    Aaj Tak was the first news channel in India to use OB vans. [8] By the time the channel came into existence, it had a reach of 52 lakh households. It now broadcasts to three crore households and its viewership in news channels is 56%. [7] On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi high-definition channel, Aaj Tak HD. [5]

  5. Living Media - Wikipedia

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    Net income. ₹131 crore (US$16 million) (2021) [1] Number of employees. 1,849 (2021) [1] Website. indiatodaygroup.com. Living Media India Limited, d.b.a. India Today Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in New Delhi, India. It has interests in magazines, newspapers, books, radio, television, printing and the Internet.

  6. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    The risk from sharing a needle during drug injection is between 0.63% and 2.4% per act, with an average of 0.8%. [72] The risk of acquiring HIV from a needle stick from an HIV-infected person is estimated as 0.3% (about 1 in 333) per act and the risk following mucous membrane exposure to infected blood as 0.09% (about 1 in 1000) per act. [54]

  7. India Today (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    The channel was launched in 2003 as a sister channel of the Hindi Aaj Tak news channel. It is one of the four news channels from the TV Today Network stable, the others being Aaj Tak, Tez and Delhi Aaj Tak. [3] Alok Verma was brought in as the Executive Producer to successfully launch TV Today group's foray into the English news channel category.

  8. Ebola in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Ebola virus disease in the United Kingdom and Ireland has occurred rarely in four cases to date, namely three health workers returning from treating victims of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in 2014 and 2015, and a single case in 1976, when a laboratory technician contracted the disease in a needlestick injury while handling samples ...

  9. Sexually transmitted infection - Wikipedia

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    108,000 (STIs other than HIV/AIDS, 2015) [4] A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex. [1][5][6] STIs often do not ...