The World Health Organisation (WHO) published this policy brief in April 2019 to set out the current landscape of country hepatitis policies for harm reduction and hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs and people in prisons.
It aims to capture how governments are translating the WHO Global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis 2016-2021, which the UK Government has signed up to, in national plans. It also provides a summary of the enablers and barriers to hepatitis C testing and treatment in these populations.
United Kingdom drug situation: Focal Point annual report 2017
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The UK Focal Point on Drugs' (part of Public Health England) annual report on the United Kingdom drug situation, providing updates for 2017. The report contains details of hepatitis C prevalence and incidence rates among injecting drug users, levels of testing, diagnosis and treatment for hepatitis C and prevention efforts by UK governments.
