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HOT TOPICS IN VIRAL HEPATITIS: Issue 6, 2007
Hepatitis C transmission: current issues (Part One)
Strategies to control hepatitis C infection among injection drug users
Ann B. Beeder, Michael R. Carden, Srinivas Cheruvu, Brian R. Edlin, Andrew H. Talal
Correspondence to:
Andrew H. Talal - MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, Department of Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY, USA E-mail: aht2002@med.cornell.edu
Summary
- EPIDEMIOLOGY
- PREVENTION OF EXPOSURE BY REDUCING INJECTION DRUG USE
- PREVENTION OF INFECTION
- HIV prevention efforts
- Community-based outreach
- Access to sterile syringes
- Needle exchange programs (NEPs)
- Local pharmacies
- Safe injection facilities (SIFs)
- Health care professionals
- Correctional facilities
- DISEASE PREVENTION
- Screening
- HCV Treatment
- Role of substance abuse treatment in control of HCV
- Treatment strategies (staff training)
- Treatment of psychiatric and substance abuse symptoms during therapy
- Correctional facilities
- BENEFITS OF CONTROLLING HCV
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- REFERENCES
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