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Introduction: AIDS was a problem of the industrial countries at first, but today it is a universal one, so that health care workers especially midwives and other workers in maternity care units are at high risk and their compliance of standard precautions is important. This research was carried out to investigate the quality of compliance of these precautions in maternity care unites
Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive analytic survey carried out on 66 midwives and 16 helper staffs in governmental maternity care unites of Kerman and Rafsanjan. The data were gathered with two checklists. All midwives and helper staffs were involved in this research. SPSS soft ware was used for data analysis
Results: The findings showed that 80.3% of midwives were at average level of practice, 16.7% were poor and 3% good. 75% of helper staffs were at poor level of practice, 25% were average not having good practice. Equipments were appropriate for both of them
Discussion: The midwives and helper staffs had appropriate equipments but only 3% of midwives had good practice while helper staffs didn't. So probably additional factors such as insufficient information and motivation, crowded ward etc. affected their practice. So in order to improve quality of practice, barriers should be determined and removed