Thanks to new Direct-Acting Antiviral treatment (DAA), hepatitis c could be dead and buried. But before that day arrives, NHS rationing threatens a death sentence for thousands of patients. A mixture of anger and optimism at the Addaction World Hepatitis…
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Druglink article 2003 – Blast from the past by Max Daly and Harry Shapiro
As the children of the 80s become ill, the trojan horse of hepatitis C threatens to overwhelm the NHS. Blast from the past (PDF)
Druglink article 2001 – Needle in a haystack: rural injecting by Noel Craine, Mark Walker, Tom Carnwath and Hilary Klee
Safer injecting in rural areas is not easy; geography, local businesses and the closeness of communities can all cause problems. Needle in a haystack: rural injecting (PDF) Additional keywords: needle exchange
Druglink article 2000 – Patient prisoners: care in custody by Jayne McKeown
Health care at Buckley Hall has been used by the chief Inspector of Prisons as an example of good practice, understanding and openness, particularly in the field of hepatitis C treatment. Patient prisoners: care in custody (PDF)
Druglink news item 2013 – Blood sample by Max Daly
There are too many barriers to treatment for marginalized people with hepatitis C. But a new report outlines some key measures to ensure London’s burgeoning HCV population receive the best help possible. Blood sample (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – 1993: Hepatitis C by Tom Waller and Roger Holmes
While all the attention was justifiably focussed on the preventing the spread of HIV, another BBV among injecting drug users was gaining ground that either went unnoticed – or as Dr Waller believed, was known about, but ignored because the…
Druglink article 1998 – Hepatitis: the junkie disease by Paul Wells
For five long years the warnings came thick and fast – but no one seems to have listened: Hepatitis C is the major cause of viral infection among drug injectors. Give it another decade and it could be the major…
Druglink article 1997 – Feed me by Dr Alan Davis
It barely requires saying that drug misusers often have health problems. Hepatitis, HIV, bacterial endocarditis and injection sores may be the ones we focus on, but perhaps we should not ignore what is often the most obvious health problem –…
Druglink article 1997 – The English patient: doctors and drug users in Britain today by Sarah Mars
A new report from the BMA seeks to provide GPs with guidance on working with drug-using patients. Funding problems are particularly acute in this area, and it is recommended that combined local budgets are explored to remedy this situation. Shared care…
Druglink article 1995 – The sleeping giant wakes by Tom Waller and Roger Holmes
Hepatitis C – scale and impact in Britain. During 1994 a questionnaire on hepatitis C was sent to drug agencies and others working with drug users. Hepatitis C was found in 6 out of 10 of over 2000 tests done…