Staying safe: How do long term injecting drug users avoid hepatitis C infection?

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/510424

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This project seeks to discover how and why some injecting drug users have managed to avoid becoming infected with hepatitis C despite having injected for many years in localities in which most other injectors have acquired the virus. The primary interest is on the strategies used by current long term (8 years or more) injectors to avoid HCV infection. Research will also be done to understand the strategies and prevention tactics used by people with HCV to avoid passing it on to others.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $328,843.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ophthalmology and optometry not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Public health | Qualitative research | Risk behaviour | Social determinants of health

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