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Wake Up To Hep C! Safer Communities Torbay become involved in European Hepatitis C Awareness Day (1st October 2005) with our own awareness raising campaign during October. You may have noticed our A-Frame Trailer being moved around the bay with the message “Wake Up To Hep C!”. Campaign materials were also distributed to services working with drug users as anyone sharing drug-taking equipment is particularly at risk of contracting the virus. It is also important to highlight that Hep C can be passed on by unsterile tattooing/body piercing equipment. The problem is that the Hep C virus may be dormant in the human body for many years, so many people don’t know they are infected and can pass it on without knowing. At least 200,000 people have been infected with Hep C in England and it is the leading cause of liver cancer and cirrhosis. Hep C can be treated quite effectively but there is currently no vaccination or cure. For more information please contact
Helen Wilks, our Harm Reduction Co-ordinator, on
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