European HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week 2016
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<strong>Hepatitis</strong> B<br />
<strong>Hepatitis</strong> B can be spread through contact<br />
with blood, bodily fluids, saliva, semen<br />
and vaginal fluid and from mother to child<br />
during birth.<br />
The vast majority (95%) of people<br />
infected as adults will clear the hepatitis B<br />
virus from their bodies naturally during the<br />
acute phase, meaning they will require no<br />
medical treatment.<br />
If you are infected by hepatitis B when you<br />
are an infant you are 95% likely to not clear<br />
the virus and have a chronic infection.<br />
<strong>Hepatitis</strong> C<br />
<strong>Hepatitis</strong> C is primarily spread through<br />
blood to blood contact, but can<br />
occasionally be transmitted sexually and<br />
from mother to child during pregnancy.<br />
Sexual transmission is more common<br />
among <strong>HIV</strong>-infected men who have sex with<br />
men.<br />
Around 1 in 5 people naturally clear<br />
hepatitis C after first being infected, most<br />
frequently within the first 6 months of<br />
becoming infected.<br />
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