Scotland’s reduction in new HCV infections due to harm reduction, not treatment

Keith Alcorn 

Published: 12 June 2018

The reduction in new hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections that has taken place in Scotland since 2008 is most likely due to increased provision of needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy, rather than a reduction in the number of people with hepatitis C as a result of increased treatment of HCV infection, a modelling study published in the journal Addiction reports.

Read the article here: http://www.infohep.org/Scotlands-reduction-in-new-HCV-infections-due-to-harm-reduction-not-treatment/page/3288867/