Trends in HCV Prevalence Among Injecting Drug Users in Glasgow and Edinburgh During the Era of Needle/Syringe Exchange
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 33 (6) , 457-461
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00365540152029936
Abstract
In 1998, we reported that anti-HCV prevalence among injectors from Glasgow had declined between 1990 and 1995. We set out to ascertain if the anti-HCV prevalence among injectors from Edinburgh had declined similarly during this period and if there had been any trend in prevalence among injectors from both cities since 1995. Residual sera from both cities' injecting drug users who had undergone named HIV testing were identified, linked to age band and gender information and tested anonymously for anti-HCV. Among Edinburgh's injectors, significant (pKeywords
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