title: Social inclusion and hepatitis C: exploring new possibilities for prevention.
abstract: In Western countries, people who inject drugs experience a disproportionate burden of hepatitis C as a result of effective transmission of the virus via the sharing of used injection equipment. With a hepatitis C prevalence of 60% and higher in many areas, previous and current prevention efforts focusing on the availability of sterile injecting equipment along with education, have had only limited effect on incidence rate. Little attention has been paid to the broader social and political positions that drug use and people who use drugs hold in these societies. Insights from social research provide opportunities to broaden the possibilities for prevention efforts. We will review the social inclusion literature to provide some examples of how hepatitis C prevention may be approached in innovative ways.
authors.affiliation: National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, Australia. c.treloar@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Treloar
authors.forename: Kylie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Valentine
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fraser
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D018671:Needle-Exchange Programs; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology; D012936:Social Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology