Safety and Local Surveillance – a Health Economics and Outcome Research Perspective was presented by Dr. Pieter de Jager, a medical doctor in the Department of Anaesthetics at Wits University and member of South Africa’s National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH). “Conservatively, we estimated that at least 20 doctors and nurses in the public healthcare sector alone contract HIV each year through needlestick injuries. We could reduce this number by more than half, our study shows, through training and the provision of safety devices.”