THE LINKED EPIDEMICS OF HEPATITIS C & INJECTION OPIOIDS

American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Jan 9, 2018

Hello and welcome to AJPH February 2018 podcast. This month we will be discussing the very worrisome epidemic of hepatitis C occurring in the United States. I first review with Professor Kimberly Page from the University of New Mexico how likely it is that, in a foreseeable future, the epidemic of hepatitis C could be controlled by a vaccine. Then the CDC epidemiologist Alice Asher explains why the epidemic is exacerbated by another epidemic of injection drug use, in particular of opioids, and why it is affecting young, non Hispanic white populations in the Appalachian region. And with Dr John Wong, clinical decision maker from Tufts University, we discuss how the availability of effective treatments may have transformed the prognosis of newly infected persons.

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