Programs focused on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, where infectious diseases are easily spread due to an injury, or through direct transmission, or indirect transmission through a vector agent, these causative agents can be bacterial, viral, parasitic, fungal, or prion. 
These infections include:

• catheter-associated urinary tract infections
• central line-associated bloodstream infections
• surgical site infections
• ventilator-associated pneumonia
• hospital-acquired pneumonia
• Clostridium difficile infections.