Written question asked by Anne Milton (Conservative) on Wednesday, 3 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 5 March 2010. It was answered by Baroness Merron (Labour) on Thursday, 11 March 2010 on behalf of the Department of Health.

HIV Infection and Hepatitis

Question: 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;

Answer

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

Department of Health—epidemiology 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

Secondary information