Look Back Posters and Testing

In the UK the vast bulk of our population has never been lucky enough to see a decent look back testing for Hepatitis C Message, so here we detail a few.

Lookback Messaging does one very helpful thing straight away for patients with Contaminated Blood Infections, it makes absolutely clear having Hepatitis C most commonly means you have been innocently infected by a health provider and are not a criminal injector of illegal drugs. On the right we see an excellent effort from New York which gives 5 medical reasons to get tested for Hepatitis C and one reason to do with drug taking.

Look back messaging also points out the scale of the disaster and the need to Get Tested to be safe.





Many Look Back Healthcare Testing Messages focus solely on the patient cohort at risk on the left the CDC one for all heart units in the US.  They also produced one for all the Maternity Units.  Again such messages de stigmatise the Contaminated Blood Outbreak and channel the patients most at risk of transfusion into rapid testing and diagnosis.



Another part of look back testing is the everyone deserves to know about their Hepatitis C Risks from Contaminated Blood this one is from Canada.



Another aspect of Look Back testing is to approach the different transmission Routes.  Here we see the US warning the veterans that 50% were infected with Hepatitis C not with Contaminated Blood but with Contaminated multi use Vaccination Guns.