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Reports by D. Lucidarme and Co-Researchers Describe Recent Advances in Epidemiology

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 19th, 2011

2011 SEP 19 -- According to the authors of recent research from Lille, France, "Over the last 40 years, the dynamics of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in drug users has been affected by the illicit drug market, the health environment including the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which erupted in the 1980s, and the diffusion of substitution treatment beginning in 1995. The purpose of this literature review is to present the dynamics of HCV infection in drug users in France over the last 40 years."

"Two prevalence studies of HCV infection in the general population were conducted by the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance in 1994 and...

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