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Table 4 Numbers and prevalence of current and ever injecting people in prisons, EU/EEA and United Kingdom (UK)

From: Hepatitis C virus infection in EU/EEA and United Kingdom prisons: opportunities and challenges for action

 

Year

Current

Ever

n

%

n

%

Bulgaria°

2016

..

..

576

..

Croatia^

2015

..

..

28

0·7

Italy*

2014

13,465

25·8

16,712

32·0

Romania*

2015

..

..

21

..

Slovakia*

2015

408

4·5

..

..

Spain*

2015

3251

5·0

28,617

44·0

UK England°

2016

7163

18·0

13,958

35·0

UK Northern Ireland°

2016

76

0·1

..

..

  1. Source: HIPED
  2. .. No data
  3. Reference population: *All people in prisons including those in remand prison/jail, ^Sentenced people only, °Missing
  4. For the United Kingdom only, ever injectors were explicitly defined as current injectors + previous injectors
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