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The launch of the 2009 'Shooting Up' report
Vivian Hope, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Elizabeth Allen, Senior Researcher and NESI Project Manager, Institute for Applied Social and Health Research, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley
Abstract
This presentation will launch the 2009 Shooting Up report on Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom during 2008. The key findings and recommendations from the report will be presented.
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Biographies
Vivian Hope currently works jointly for the Health Protection Agency's Centre for Infections and the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His work focuses on Public Health surveillance and research activities concerned with infections among injecting drug users and the associated risk and protective behaviours. He has also been involved with other work related to the epidemiology of illicit drugs, including studies to estimate the prevalence of problematic and injecting drug use.
Viv is also responsible for co-ordinating the 'Shooting Up' report on infections among injectors in the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Allen is a Senior Researcher for the Institute for Applied Social and Health Research at the University of the West of Scotland. She has successfully worked on a variety of research studies as lead researcher and project manager. This has included several collaborative studies on hepatitis C prevention and risk behaviours associated with injecting drug use.
She currently manages the Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative (NESI). NESI is an annual survey looking at the prevalence and incidence of Hepatitis C, and associated risk behaviours, among needle exchange attendees in Scotland.
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