A joint effort by HCV Action and The Hepatitis C Trust, this report sets out to understand what the NHS and frontline services who work with people at risk of hepatitis C are seeing in relation to reinfection, what is already being done, and what more we might put in place locally and nationally to address this.
Hepatitis C Prevalence and Incidence among Scottish Prisoners and Staff Views of its Management: Final Report

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This report aims to generate reliable data on prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C to inform the Scottish Prison Service and the NHS to develop effective needs-led interventions for hepatitis C (HCV) infected prisoners, and to enable an informed assessment of the effectiveness of measures to prevent the spread of blood borne viruses, especially hepatitis C, within the prison setting, as outlined in the Hepatitis C (Phase (II)) Action Plan for Scotland (2008).