title: Israel: HIV-positive surgeon   allowed to return to work.
abstract: The Israeli Ministry of Health decided in January 2009 that a surgeon living with HIV may return to carrying out invasive surgical procedures, providing he or she maintains an undetectable viral load, follows infection control procedures and uses two layers of surgical gloves when operating. The Ministry also decided that prospective patients of the surgeon need not be notified of the surgeon's HIV infection because there is an extremely low risk of HIV transmission if the above conditions are met.
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013502:General Surgery; D005932:Gloves, Surgical; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / Q000517:prevention & control; D007557:Israel; D011363:Professional Impairment; D000078329:Workforce