... provides critical information on key principles guiding health workers in managing HIV/AIDS, whether in preventing new infections, caring for them or mitigatingits impact. For this reason, it is important ... cases, including the route of transmission, the inoculum of infectious virus and the host’s immune response to the exposure (Mandell et al., 2000). Blood of all persons must be regarded as infectious ... an increase in the mean number of admissions in their medical wards. The public and district hospitals on the other hand showed nochange. This is different in the case of HIV/AIDS admissions...