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Hepatitis B and C among ethnic minorities

This recommendation has been archived and is no longer regularly reviewed by the UK NSC.

Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are viruses which infect the liver. They can cause serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and cancer. These may occur decades after infection. Illness due to hepatitis is more common among ethnic minority groups than white groups in the UK.

Read more about hepatitis B and C on the NHS website.

The remit of the UK NSC is general population screening. This policy recommendation has therefore been archived because it investigates screening among specific ethnic minority groups.

Read the UK NSC minutes of February 2020 for more information on this decision.

You can also visit the UK Government Web Archive to see UK NSC activities on this topic before it was archived.

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