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Resource first published on December 10, 2013.
The United Nations Development Programme’s Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on healthcare waste and the NGO Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with AGENDA and John Snow, Inc., conducted a pilot project to demonstrate proper healthcare waste management and the use of an autoclave and shredder imported from India to disinfect healthcare waste in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. This technical brief summarizes the results of microbial inactivation testing of the healthcare waste treatment autoclave at the 98-bed Bagamoyo District Hospital in Tanzania.
The objectives of the testing were to determine proper operating conditions for the autoclave that correspond at least to Level III disinfection and to test the use of a shredder for sharps waste.