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Hepatitis Campaigns That Work
Campaigns That Have Worked For Contaminated Blood Care

Globally they all follow the big 4 below
  1. They publicly list the risks from prison blood and healthcare (eg UK 1 in 39 transfusions-1 in 9 dialysis etc) and say get tested to all patients at risk to prevent death by ignorance, on television, via posters in every surgery, via publicising the risks and the facts in Medical Schools. 
  2. They use the World Heath 1999 Disease Classification. It's a Super bug. They admit it's a blood virus you get from blood and contaminated medical equipment, not a rare disease mainly caught by People Who Inject Drugs.
  3. They use the World Health 1999 Death Certification to note deaths go down as population diagnosis goes up (US a 55% drop) and to "see" the thousands dying from undiagnosed ignorance. The UK has the second worst figures for booming liver disease in the EU.
  4. They use the World Health Hepatitis C Epidemic Map to Educate the Public about the outbreak scale.
Globally every country using the above Strategy hit far better than our patient test/diagnosis levels often twenty years ago. The 4 above are the foundations of mass screening, the only campaign that works. Success and failure is simple to measure as patient numbers diagnosed.
Our country has needed this public focus, this public alarm and this public Urgency for 28 years. What we got was the opposite.

For 3 decades we have needed our Health Service to be broadcastingly honest about the nature and size of the contaminated blood risk and instead they have been arguing in Courts and Inquiries the need to do little and say nothing unless forced.  Below left the 6 Hepatitis Asks of Parliament in 2008 and below right a resume of the huge numbers dying uncounted from Hep C and Hep B in the UK, for nearly 3 decades viral hepatitis deaths have been chronically under counted.  We know 250,000 have died with Hepatitis C but still have no system to note how many have died because of Hepatitis C, to date the Department of Health attributes most cirrhosis to alcohol without counting its viral hepatitis component.

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