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Scottish report on hepatitis C and injecting practices has implications for policy and harm reduction strategies

Author(s) -

A. Taylor,

Anne Fleming,

Jeanne Rutherford,

David Goldberg

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 9999-1233

DOI - 10.2807/esw.08.16.02441-en

Subject(s) - harm reduction , syringe , hepatitis c , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychological intervention , transmission (telecommunications) , harm , virology , hepatitis , reduction (mathematics) , intensive care medicine , environmental health , political science , nursing , psychiatry , law , computer science , geometry , mathematics , telecommunications

There is considerable evidence that needle/syringe exchange provision has helped to control HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs) [1]. However, the indications are that current interventions may be reducing, but are not controlling, the spread of hepatitis C infection (HCV) [2].

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