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- Title
Sleepwalking through an Epidemic--Why Social Work should Wake up to the Threat of Hepatitis C.
- Authors
Paylor, Ian; Orgel, Michael
- Abstract
One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of `crack' injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions - the HCV epidemic. This article explores this issue and the implications it has for social work.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; BLOODBORNE infections; HEPATITIS C; HIV; HEPATITIS C virus; PUBLIC health; HUMAN services
- Publication
British Journal of Social Work, 2004, Vol 34, Issue 6, p897
- ISSN
0045-3102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjsw/bch107