Services Database Blood Borne Virus Testing (Solihull Area)

Pharmacists will both opportunistically and through referrals offer HBV, HCV and HIV testing to people who fit the “at-risk” groups listed below:

1. Current injecting drug users this includes body builders injecting steroids;
2. Former injecting drug users this includes body builders injecting steroids;
3. Sexual partner of a current or former injecting drug user this includes body builders injecting steroids;
4. People at risk through sharing of drug paraphernalia such as notes, straws and pipes;
5. Person born in a high-prevalence country ;
6. Person receiving medical or dental procedures in a high-prevalence country;
7. Recipients of blood products/organs in UK prior to 1991;
8. People given tattoos, piercings or acupuncture in unregistered premises or with possibly unsterile equipment;
9. People at risk through needle-stick injury, sharing of razors or toothbrushes with someone with HBV/HCV, contact sports where blood may have been present; and
10. Men who have sex with men.

Not known.