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HIV Infection and Hepatitis

Volume 507: debated on Thursday 11 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are working on policy on (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C. (321149)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Infectious disease

Whole-time equivalent (WTE)

HIV

2.4

Hepatitis B

0.65

Hepatitis C

1.55

In addition, the Offender Health team provides 0.2 WTE for work on HIV and other blood borne viruses in the prison setting.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what epidemiology and surveillance studies commissioned by his Department are being undertaken into (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C; (321150)

(2) how much was spent on surveillance and epidemiology of (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009.

Information on epidemiology and surveillance studies commissioned by the Department is shown by financial year in the following table.

Department of Healthepidemiology and surveillance studies 2007-08 to 2009-10

(£)

Studies

Organisation

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

Estimation of hepatitis C related morbidity

Health Protection Agency

62,697

5,211

73,423

Prevalence of hepatitis C in antenatal clinic attenders

Health Protection Agency

25,852

Prevalence of hepatitis C in genito urinary medicine clinic attenders in England

Health Protection Agency

25,684

Case finding and prevalence of chronic viral hepatitis in South Asians living in the United Kingdom

Health Protection Agency

37,349

Surveillance of hepatitis C testing

Health Protection Agency

125,217

65,267

65,267

Monitoring hepatitis C related care in the NHS: a one year pilot study

Health Protection Agency

17,205

65,267

Monitoring and modelling prognosis in the era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

University of Bristol

42,016

Sexual attitudes and lifestyles of London's Eastern Europeans

University College London

72,230

145,957

73,726

Experiences of female migrant sex workers from Eastern Europe and effect of multiple vulnerabilities on risk of Sexual Transmitted Infections/HIV

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

50,776

119,703

34,463

British Paediatric Surveillance Unit - surveillance of HIV

Health Protection Agency

3,600

3,600

3,600