Drug and Alcohol Review
04/22/2002
By David Ball
Injecting drug users (IDU) can be helped to reduce their risk of contracting hepatitis C with free testing and counselling by a trained and experienced peer based at a needle and syringe programme (NSP).
Researchers at an NSP in western Melbourne, Australia, suggest there is a demand for such services when provided by an appropriate and effective model.
This approach was tested by a peer outreach worker who offered the services in over 300 counselling episodes from the NSP between August 1999 and January 2000. Forty-seven IDUs were tested for hepatitis C and given full pre- and post-test counselling. They were asked about why they had not been tested over the previous year, their knowledge of hepatitis C, and their risk behaviour.
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