Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2007 - Drug Misuse Information ...

Blood-borne Viruses
C4.2 Persons reported to be Hepatitis C antibody-positive: Prior to 1995,
1995, 2000, 2002 - 2006 1
NHS board 2 , probable/possible route of transmission
Prior to
1995 r 1995 r 2000 r 2002 r 2003 r 2004 r 2005 r 2006 Total 5
Scotland Total 2 439 1 118 1 883 1 795 1 652 1 653 1 617 1 519 22 071
Injecting drug user 1 072 661 1 309 1 143 1 010 924 899 759 13 146
Other 3 445 118 93 97 93 86 111 125 1 619
Not known 922 339 481 555 549 643 607 635 7 306
Ayrshire & Arran Total 75 34 140 132 150 122 105 133 1 275
Injecting drug user 20 11 78 55 63 56 47 34 523
Other 3 24 6 4 4 3 5 4 5 82
Not known 31 17 58 73 84 61 54 94 670
Borders Total 22 14 8 11 10 11 9 16 128
Injecting drug user 8 8 5 3 2 5 2 4 52
Other 3 6 1 1 1 - - - 1 11
Not known 8 5 2 7 8 6 7 11 65
Dumfries & Galloway Total 28 22 56 52 50 54 65 50 551
Injecting drug user 12 9 42 36 40 41 50 35 370
Other 3 7 3 1 - - 1 3 1 26
Not known 9 10 13 16 10 12 12 14 155
Fife Total 44 22 49 39 23 64 62 45 607
Injecting drug user 13 17 34 20 9 23 26 19 332
Other 3 11 2 - 4 1 1 1 4 33
Not known 20 3 15 15 13 40 35 22 242
Forth Valley Total 86 32 95 76 71 84 71 91 965
Injecting drug user 26 15 54 39 30 21 29 31 409
Other 3 15 4 7 4 1 - 2 6 55
Not known 45 13 34 33 40 63 40 54 501
Grampian Total 123 137 259 208 201 167 179 185 2 547
Injecting drug user 57 96 183 162 140 112 111 110 1 802
Other 3 24 16 5 9 10 1 7 5 114
Not known 42 25 71 37 51 54 61 70 631
Greater Glasgow and Clyde 4 Total 844 403 802 786 731 653 594 531 9 064
Injecting drug user 321 212 620 551 500 414 352 315 5 787
Other 3 144 28 40 44 43 45 59 64 640
Not known 379 163 142 191 188 194 183 152 2 637
Highland 4 Total 83 48 53 68 59 32 40 59 721
Injecting drug user 11 12 30 43 28 12 24 25 320
Other 3 26 18 7 5 5 1 4 4 89
Not known 46 18 16 20 26 19 12 30 312
Lanarkshire Total 116 42 123 144 125 129 155 103 1 430
Injecting drug user 25 17 74 75 79 79 82 44 737
Other 3 34 5 - 4 7 7 10 11 99
Not known 57 20 49 65 39 43 63 48 594
Health Impact
Lothian Total 775 224 172 165 146 238 233 199 3 195
Injecting drug user 453 164 117 101 81 127 131 101 1 931
Other 3 115 18 14 11 11 20 18 18 308
Not known 207 42 41 53 54 91 84 80 956
Orkney Total 2 1 - 2 - 1 1 - 15
Injecting drug user - - - 2 - 1 1 - 9
Other 3 1 - - - - - - - 4
Not known 1 1 - - - - - - 2
Shetland Total 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 33
Injecting drug user - 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 18
Other 2 2 1 - 1 - - - - 5
Not known 2 - - - 1 1 1 2 10
Tayside Total 235 135 123 107 84 96 101 104 1 533
Injecting drug user 126 98 69 54 37 32 43 40 855
Other 3 35 15 14 10 12 5 3 6 151
Not known 74 22 40 43 35 59 55 58 527
Western Isles Total 2 1 - 2 - - - - 7
Injecting drug user - - - - - - - - 1
Other 3 1 1 - - - - - - 2
Not known 1 - - 2 - - - - 4
1 Year of earliest known positive specimen (as at 31 March 2007)
2 Refers to the person's NHS board of residence or, where this is not known, the NHS board of source of specimen.
3 Includes sexual contact, body piercing/tattoo, needlestick, bite, perinatal transmission, and blood factor/blood transfusion risk.
Any persons who acquired their infection through blood transfusion will have done so prior to the introduction of Hepatitis C antibody testing of blood donors in 1991.
4 From April 2006 Argyll and Clyde NHS Board was dissolved. Part of the former NHS Argyll and Clyde merged with NHS Greater Glasgow becoming NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, while the remained merged with
NHS Highland. Data for earlier years is shown by these new NHS boards to allow comparison over the time period.
5 Total includes data for years not featured.
(zero)
r Revised.
Source: Health Protection Scotland (HPS) - Hepatitis C database.
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