DrugScope
Prince Consort House
Suite 204 (2nd Floor)
109/111 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3BW
Tel: 020 7520 7550
Fax: 020 7520 7555
www.drugscope.org.uk
Drugscope is the UK’s leading independent centre of expertise on drugs. Their aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
LONDON
SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 7556 2102
www.hse.gov.uk
HSE’s job is to protect people against risks to health or safety arising out of work activities.
Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Health Protection Agency Central Office
7th Floor
Holborn Gate
330 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7PP
Tel: 020 7759 2700 / 2701
www.hpa.org.uk
The Health Protection Agency is an independent UK organisation that was set up by the government in 2003 to protect the public from threats to their health from infectious diseases and environmental hazards. It does this by providing advice and information to the general public, to health professionals such as doctors and nurses, and to national and local government.
Hepatitis B Foundation UK
The Great Barn
Godmersham Park
Canterbury
Kent CT4 7DT
Tel: 01227 738 279 (office) 07768 847545 (mobile) Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm
Helpline: 0800 046 1911 Monday to Friday 10.30am – 8pm
www.hepb.org.uk
A charity that raises awareness about the prevention, treatment and management of hepatitis B and offers advice, information and facilitates networking between patients, their families and professionals.
Macmillan Cancer Support
89 Albert Embankment
London SE1 7UQ
Tel: 0808 800 1234 Monday to Friday 9am – 8pm
Fax: 020 7840 7841
www.cancerbackup.org.uk
A leading cancer information service, giving cancer information, practical advice and support for cancer patients, their families and carers.
Mainliners
2nd Floor, Downstream Building
1 London Bridge
London SE1 9BG
Tel: 020 7022 1890
Fax: 020 7022 1893
Email: admin@mainliners.org.uk
www.mainliners.org.uk
Working to improve quality of life and prevent HIV, hepatitis and drug related
harm through outreach, information and education.
NICE
Tel: 0845 003 7780
www.nice.org.uk
NICE is the NHS body responsible for producing national guidance on health technologies and treatments. NICE assesses technologies for their clinical and cost-effectiveness. Once it has recommended a medicine, the
NHS is obliged to make it available for patients. NICE has issued guidance on adefovir and pegylated interferon alpha-2a and also on entecavir for hepatitis B, and is preparing guidance on telbivudine and also on tenofovir.
More information is available on the NICE website.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Central Office
314-320 Grays Inn Road
London WC1X 8DP
Tel: 020 7812 1600
Email: info@tht.org.uk
www.tht.org.uk
A charity offering a wide range of support services for people affected by HIV. This website provides useful information about hepatitis B and HIV/HBV co-infection. For further information about the three main types of viral hepatitis affecting gay men you can visit www.hepinfo.org, another site produced by the Terrence Higgins Trust.