Hepatitis C and initiates into injecting drug use among young people : Part 2 : educating young initiates about hepatitis C prevention

Young people new to injecting drug use are a priority target group for hepatitis C prevention education. The Initiates to Injecting (i2i) Research Project found that young people surveyed and interviewed had low levels of knowledge about hepatitis C transmission and sterile injecting at the time they first injected, and that information giving and receiving was not an integral part of the first injecting experience. Part 2 poses various hepatitis C prevention challenges and opportunities prior to, during and after a young person's initial injecting experience and highlights the valuable role of peer-led education in hepatitis C prevention.