A longitudinal study of hepatitis C virus testing and infection status notification on behaviour change in people who inject drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and counselling have the potential to impact individual behaviour and transmission dynamics at the population level. Evidence of the impact of an HCV-positive status notification on injection risk reduction is limited. The objective of our study was to (1) assess drug and alcohol use and injection risk behaviours following notification; (2) to compare behaviour change in people who inject drugs (PWID) who received a positive test result and those who remained negative; and (3) to assess the effect of age on risk behaviour.

Methods

Data from the International Collaboration of Incident HIV and HCV Infection in Injecting Cohorts (InC3 Study) were analysed. Participants who were initially HCV seronegative were followed prospectively wit

SUBMITTER: Spelman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515217 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature