With the Covid-19 outbreak having caused significant disruption to healthcare services, including those for hepatitis C, HCV Action organised a webinar to discuss how services have been affected in different areas across the country and explore how hepatitis C services can most effectively be re-established as we emerge from the early phase of the outbreak. This report provides a summary of the remarks from each of the four speakers and the Q&A which followed.
Shooting Up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK, 2018
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This December 2019 update to the Shooting Up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK, produced by Public Health England, provides updated data to the end of 2018. The report says that there is early evidence for a reduction in chronic hepatitis C prevalence among injecting drug users, but that rates of new infection are unchanged, including amongst individuals who have recently started injecting.
