Impact of a positive hepatitis C diagnosis on homeless injecting drug users: a qualitative study

[摘要] Increasing numbers of injecting drug users are presenting to primary care and a growing number of general practices are specifically providing care for homeless people. Injecting drug users are at the greatest risk of hepatitis C infection and homeless drug misusers, because of their drug-taking behaviour and patterns, have been identified as being at greater risk of harm of blood-borne diseases than the general population. However, little work has been conducted with injecting drug users or homeless people who have hepatitis C and little is known about how the virus may affect them.

[学科分类] 卫生学

[关键词] hepatitis C;homeless persons;intravenous drug abuse;primary care;qualitative research