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Act Now! Liver or die A PEER TRAINING MANUAL |
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Monitoring of the testing for hepatitis C has been implemented in low-threshold services in Germany, Romania, Portugal and Finland.
The monitoring aimed at collecting data on the proportion of drug users who have been tested for HCV, the prevalence of HCV and the number of drug users that should be tested for hepatitis C. |
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In the four European countries Finland, Germany, Romania and Portugal a broaderinvestigation on drug use and infections with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) was conducted.
One part of the research consisted in the longitudinal screening of visitors of low-threshold drug services for previous HCV antibody testing and their current HCV testing need. A second part consisted in a survey aimed at exploring the drug users’ experiences with testing and treatment. |
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Hepatitis C: Treatment and care for people who inject drugs |
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Publication of the BMC Infectious Desease The publication was produced in the framework of the 'Hepatitis C Initiative' project by CHIP, The Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research, University of Copenhagen. The publication contains five research articles and a discussion article that collectively demonstrate the potential for smart research to help transform the political and public health response to hepatitis C in Europe and presents no less than ten commentaries about crucial issues in this realm with a broad diversity of experiences represented in the contributions. |
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The Correlation Hepatitis C and Drug Use Initiative was funded by the EC Commission DPIP programme and received an unrestricted grant by Gilead Ltd and financial support by Abbvie Biochemicals Sarl |
Correlation Hepatitis C Initiative tel. +31 20 570 7826 (direct) c/o Foundation De REGENBOOG GROEP / Droogbak 1d / 1013 GE Amsterdam / The Netherlands www.correlation-net.org |
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