Sexually transmitted infections emerge from a recent epidemiological study as a particularly pressing concern for Chinese public health at the present time. Yang & Li (Y&L) assess trends in incidence and mortality in 45 notifiable infectious diseases across China over the decade since the SARS tragedy in 2003 brought important changes in Chinese public health […]
Category: Hepatitis C
ChemSex and HCV transmission among UK MSM
Reports of substantial rises in the incidence of HCV among MSM populations in the UK (STI/Yaphe & Klein; STI/Ghosn & Chaix) have attracted some attention in STI journal. Not least because intravenous drug use is the most obvious mode of transmission for this blood-borne virus, and MSM have in the past tended not to use this route of administration. […]