Action on Hepatitis C Prevention

Action on Hepatitis C Prevention
Date of publication: October 2002

Action on Hepatitis C Prevention has been developed to help address the New Zealand Health Strategy priority population health objective:

Minimising harm caused by alcohol and illicit and other drug use to individuals and the community.

More specifically, it addresses the prevention strategies for blood-borne viruses identified in An Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease: Priorities for Action 2002–2006 (Ministry of Health 2001).

Hepatitis C has emerged in recent years as a worldwide health problem. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on member countries to develop hepatitis C prevention plans in 1999 (WHO 1999). In developed countries hepatitis C infection has become primarily associated with the use of injecting illicit drugs. New Zealand is no exception.

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