Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status

[...]it is usually best that an effective and acceptable treatment is available for the condition being screened for. Behaviour change is precisely the "treatment response" that needs to be achieved with educational work and a range of therapeutic approaches with seropositive patients to benefit them, their intimates, and the wider populations. [...]services can promote behaviour changes within the harm reduction paradigm 2 regardless of pharmacotherapies for hepatitis C. Finally, the fear that services might be overburdened if patients positive for hepatitis C virus were encouraged to seek an established effective treatment is discriminatory on the grounds of diagnosis.