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Active surveillance of Hepatitis C Virus in the
UK
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Most current paediatric Hepatitis C Virus
infection in UK and Ireland has been acquired from
contaminated blood products, and most children are
asymptomatic. There is a need for multicentre trials to inform
clinical practice and development of good practice guidelines
in this area. Long term follow up of this cohort of Hepatitis C Virus
infected children is planned to help determine the natural
history over the long term of Hepatitis C Virus acquired during infancy and
childhood |
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Anger on ruling not to prosecute Irish Doctors
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There has been an angry public reaction to the decision by
Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions not to take legal
action against the doctors and other former medical staff who
were named as being negligent by the Tribunal into
Hepatitis-C-Infected Blood Products earlier this year. More
than 1600 people had been infected with hepatitis-C virus (Hepatitis C Virus)
at the time of the Tribunal.
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Audit of bloodborne virus infections in injecting drug users
in general practice-England |
Increasing
interest in hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users
has generated a need for information on the transmission,
incidence and prevalence, and natural history of the disease. |
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Britain
experiences steep AIDS rise
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In what
public health officials in Britain deemed an "extremely
worrying trend," new cases of HIV diagnosed in the UK in
2002 are expected to increase by 20 percent, more than twice
the amount being reported at the end of the 1990s.
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Exposure of
healthcare workers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to
bloodborne viruses between July 1997 and June 2000
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The
transmission of bloodborne viruses to healthcare workers can
have serious consequences not only for clinical practice but
also, because of the requirements of health and safety
legislation, for their employers.
In spite of guidance and education,
however, many healthcare workers continue to be exposed
to bloodborne viruses from percutaneous,
mucocutaneous, or other injuries. |
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Healthcare reform-British |
Britain's National Health Service was established in the wake
of WW II amid a broad consensus that health care should be
made available to all. |
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HIV, hepatitis tests for some UK Health Workers
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Doctors, nurses and other health workers wanting
jobs in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) will be
required to test
negative for HIV and hepatitis B and C before taking up
certain posts,
under new measures put forward by the government. |
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HIV in British
Prisons
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This paper discusses the problems of HIV in British prisons
in regard to risk behaviors such as syringe sharing, sexual
behavior and tattooing. It
recommends ways to prevent the spread of HIV within the
prison system
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Increase in mortality rates from intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in
England and Wales
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Deaths
from liver cancer have almost doubled in the past 30 years,
shows research in Gut. A relatively rare type of liver cancer
arising from the bile ducts-intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma-accounts
for virtually all of the increase.
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Seroinconversion
to positivity for Hepatitis C Virus-England 93-5 |
To estimate
the rate of seroconversion to positively for Hepatitis C Virus antibody in
repeat blood donors in England and to describe the probable
routes of infection in these donors |
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London
Times on Bayer Drug Trials.
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ONE of the
world's largest drug companies placed hundreds of patients at
risk of potentially fatal infections by failing to disclose
crucial safety information to six hospitals at the start of a
nationwide drug trial.
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Prevalence of HIV and hepatitis infections in the United
Kingdom-2001 |
Annual report of the unlinked anonymous prevalence monitoring
programme
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271 kb pdf |
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Protection
of UK blood supply from HIV, HBV, Hepatitis C Virus: infected donations
rarely enter supply
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Approximately
five blood donations a year infected with hepatitis B, and one
Alternative Treatments every twelve years infected with HIV or hepatitis C
enter the United Kingdom's blood supply, according to a study
published in the May 2003 edition of the journal Vox Sanguinis.
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Queen
Mum Lauded
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The
Eastern regional co-ordinator for HIV/AIDS, Dr. Sampson Badu
Ofori, has commended the Queen Mothers Association of the
Manya Krobo Traditional Area (MKTA) for helping to reduce the
AIDS prevalence rate from 13% to about %6 now in the area.
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Shooting Up:
infections in injecting drug users in the United Kingdom, 2002 |
Infections in injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United
Kingdom (UK) are becoming a growing public health problem. In
recent years there have been outbreaks of, among other
illnesses, hepatitis A, wound botulism and most recently
tetanus(4) . Data on a range of infections that can affect
IDUs have been brought together in a new annual report that
includes surveillance data from across the UK.
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UN Inter-Agency Project on Trafficking in Women and Children
in the Mekong Sub-region |
Globalization is distinguished by increased focus on
competitive markets. Such competitive markets tend to be
characterized by considerable inequality in incomes and
wealth. And it is this inequality, this disparity, coupled
with the rise of consumerism that, as much as poverty,
drives migration. For if the expectation of better
opportunities were not available elsewhere, there would be
less cause to migrate
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UK Doctors warn of death toll from 'silent epidemic' of
hepatitis C
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The silent epidemic of hepatitis C is officially estimated
to have infected 200,000 people in the UK - four times as many
as HIV - and more than 100 people are being infected each
week.
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UK working group on education and HIV/AIDS |
Approaches
to examining the impact of HIV/AIDS on teachers-Policy and
Research |
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