In recent years, Hong Kong has begun to adopt ‘micro-elimination’ to cure Hepatitis C among high-risk groups. With the support of The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong, Centre for Liver Health, CUHK, provides health education, Hepatitis C screening and treatment to people, who have been injecting drugs with syringes in the New Territories East, by using a caring model ‘Social Welfare and Medical treatment all in one’.
Our social workers provided emotional support and escorted outpatients to visit a clinic or hospital. The project successfully invited 31 people in the district, who took methadone and were diagnosed with Hepatitis C, accepting Hepatitis C medical treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Finally, all viruses of Hepatitis C were cleared among all of them.
