How can everyone have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible? What was it like to discover hepatitis C and win the Nobel Prize in Medicine? How can we protect ourselves from unsafe injection practices? Listen to season 6 of Contagious Conversations.

More than 150,000 patients have been notified of potential exposure to hepatitis and HIV due to unsafe injection practices in U.S. healthcare settings since 2001. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, medical injections are an overlooked source of infections and outbreaks.

To promote safe injection practices in all U.S. healthcare settings, the Safe Injection Practices Coalition is a partnership of healthcare-related organizations, patient advocacy organizations, industry partners and other public health partners, led by CDC. The Coalition has developed the One & Only Campaign – a public health education and awareness campaign aimed at both healthcare providers and patients to advance and promote safe injection practices.