New hepatitis C virus infection, re-infection and associated risk behaviour in male Irish prisoners: a cohort study, 2019

• Main Authors: Des Crowley (Author), Gordana Avramovic (Author), Walter Cullen (Author), Collette Farrell (Author), Anne Halpin (Author), Mary Keevans (Author), Eamon Laird (Author), Tina McHugh (Author), Susan McKiernan (Author), Sarah Jayne Miggin (Author), Ross Murtagh (Author), Eileen O. Connor (Author), Marie O'Meara (Author), Deirdre O. Reilly (Author), John S. Lambert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Prisoners are recognised as a high-risk population and prisons as high-risk locations for the transmission of hepatitis c virus (HCV) infection. Injecting drug use (IDU) is the main driver of HCV infection in prisoners and harm reduction services are often suboptimal in prison se...