Hepatitis
C
An Australian Perspective
World-wide, an estimated 170 million people are infected with the hepatitis
C virus and 3 to 4 million people are newly infected each year. In Australia,
hepatitis C is the most commonly notified communicable disease, with an
estimated 200,000 people currently infected and 11,000 new infections
each year.
This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date guide to hepatitis C.
Following a chapter, ‘Living with hepatitis C: a constant bloody struggle’, in which 5 people living with hepatitis C tell their stories, the book’s 21 chapters are grouped into six sections:
- The
virus
(virology and molecular virology, laboratory diagnosis, vaccine development);
- The
disease
(pathology and pathogenesis, natural history, extrahepatic manifestations, HCV/HIV co-infection);
- Clinical
management
(assessment and monitoring, antiviral therapy, alternative therapies, decision-making);
- Living
with the virus
(quality of life, discrimination);
- The
epidemic
(transmission, epidemiology, transfusion, epidemiology among IDUs); and
- Responding
to the epidemic
(developing policy, the role of community-based councils, peer education, gaining control of the epidemic).
The chapters on the virus, the disease, treatments and the epidemic are state-of-the-art expositions of current knowledge by acknowledged experts in their field. Many of the chapters in ‘Living with the virus’ and ‘Responding to the epidemic’ document Australia’s innovative and effective policy and program development in response to the hepatitis C epidemic.
The book will prove essential to all with an interest in hepatitis C: those infected, their families, friends and colleagues; and physicians, public health workers, social and community workers, counsellors, biomedical scientists, policy-makers, and students.
Bibliographic
details
Published, September 2001. 229x153mm. 400 pages.
Includes bibliography and index.
Paperback.
ISBN 0-9578617-2-9. $85.00