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Prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections
Report 9553
Catheters provide vital access to the bloodstream but also increase the risk of infection. This advisory report offers healthcare professionals practical recommendations to prevent bloodstream infections during the insertion, maintenance, and removal of intravascular, subcutaneous, and...

Use of masks in healthcare
Report 9757
Wearing a mask to prevent viral respiratory infections in all circumstances (pandemic, epidemic, endemic) in healthcare activities.

Pharmaceuticals in the context of the threat terrorism
Report 9552
In this scientific advisory report on public health policy, the Superior Health Council of Belgium provides a revision of the advisory report of 2003 on the necessary stockpiles of pharmaceuticals in case of biological and chemical terrorism and includes radio-nuclear threats in this new report...

Belgian COVID-19 testing strategy in the context of viral respiratory infections prevention in all circumstances (pandemic, epidemic, endemic) for healthcare activities, nursing homes and long term care facilities
Report 9768
Please note that this document cannot be considered as a classic advisory report from the Superior Health Council. It is the result of an "Open Consultation", which only engages the responsibility of the signatories of the document who have approved it by consensus and by email. Such a...

Decentralised and demedicalised screening for HIV in Belgium: response to a request for advice from the public health authorities (July 2015) (SHC 9224)
Report 9224
This advisory report aims at providing the Belgian public health authorities, medical and non-medical professionals, not-for-profit organisations or associative structures involved in the prevention of STIs/AIDS with specific recommendations regarding the precise circumstances under which...
