Shooting Up - Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2003 - An update: October 2004

Synopsis

This report uses data gathered by surveillance systems operated by the Health Protection Agency's Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) and Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division (SRMD), the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH), National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHSW), CDSC Northern Ireland, and other collaborating institutions. Data from research studies undertaken by these organisations with the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB) at Imperial College London have also been included.

Last reviewed: 13 January 2012