Welcome to the website of the Greater Manchester Hepatitis C Strategy

This site will tell you all you need to know about hepatitis C – whether you are a patient, carer/relative or work in the medical profession – what work is being done to improve hepatitis C services in Greater Manchester and what support is out there.

We predict that as many as 20,000 people in Greater Manchester could be have hepatitis C. As the virus often produces no symptoms, unfortunately most of these people won’t even know that they have the disease.

There are a number of main ways that you can contract hepatitis C –

• by sharing equipment for injecting drugs

   

• through a blood transfusion or blood products before screening was introduced

A simple test can put your mind at rest if you think you may have put yourself at risk. If you do test positive for the virus there is treatment that can clear the virus.

The sooner you get tested and start treatment, the better the outcome.