HBV/HCV/HIV in Belgian Prisons

Hasselt University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis B

HIV Infections

Treatments

Other: Prevalence of blood borne viral infections (HBV/HCV/HIV)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04366492

HBV-HCV-HIV-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the prevalence of blood-borne viral infections in prisons in Belgium, screening will be executed in several prisons in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia to obtain a geographical representative distribution.

Upon informed consent screening will be performed using whole capillary blood (finger prick testing) with three different tests for HCV Ab, HBsAg and HIV. Screening will be performed first. While awaiting the test result (15-20min), the participant can fill out a questionnaire (together with the study nurse), concerning risk factors for HCV, HBV and HIV infection. This questionnaire is filled out directly online, and will be immediately implemented in the encoded database. The database is set-up according to the rules of good clinical practice. (Castor EDC software). The results will be filled out immediately by the prison staff in this database after it is filled out by the participant, minimizing the risk of displacement of test results.

Enrollment

3,045 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age ≥ 18 years
Imprisoned in one of the predefined prisons in Flanders Brussels or Wallonia participating in this trial
Written informed consent obtained

Exclusion criteria

Written informed consent not possible: (language barrier, illiteracy)
Already participated in the study: re-entry within inclusion period in one of the prisons