Incorporating HIV/hepatitis B virus/hepatitis C virus combined testing into routine blood tests in nine UK Emergency Departments: the "Going Viral" campaign.

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Routine HIV screening is recommended in those UK hospitals and primary care settings where the HIV prevalence is > 0.2%. For hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), however, testing is targeted at at-risk groups. We investigated the prevalence of these blood-borne viruses (BBVs) during a routine testing pilot in UK Emergency Departments (EDs).

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): HIV Med.

Title: HIV medicine

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1468-1293

ISSN (Print): 1464-2662

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 2016

Volume: 17

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Ambrose King Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, UK.

[2 ] Public Health England, London, UK.

[3 ] Sexual Health Department, Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, London, UK.

[4 ] Sexual Health Department, Kings College Hospital, London, UK.

[5 ] Sexual Health Department, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK.

[6 ] Sexual Health Department, Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK.

[7 ] Sexual Health Department, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK.

[8 ] Sexual Health Department, University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.

[9 ] Hepatology Department, Queen Mary University London, London, UK.

[10 ] Emergency Department, Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, UK.

[11 ] Virology Department, Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, UK.

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DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12364

PubMed ID: 26919291

SO-VID: df3c8c20-78c5-4fb8-b9b6-25d740285066

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Keywords: blood-borne virus testing,hepatitis C testing,blood-borne virus seroprevalence,Emergency Department,HIV testing

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Keywords: blood-borne virus testing, hepatitis C testing, blood-borne virus seroprevalence, Emergency Department, HIV testing

Incorporating HIV/hepatitis B virus/hepatitis C virus combined testing into routine blood tests in nine UK Emergency Departments: the "Going Viral" campaign.

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