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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

Srinivas Cheruvu, Ann B. Beeder, Michael R. Carden, 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

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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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