Data on HBV among IDUs in Europe indicate prevalence varying between 20 and 60 per cent.

It has also developed stronger partnerships with the police and local authorities to address HBV.

Both hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections are also highly prevalent among IDUs.

Of the people who have been infected with HBV, more than 350 million have chronic (lifelong) infections.

There was consequently an increased incidence of HBV and HCV, with the associated complications for patients, and of cirrhosis, fibrosis and neoplasms of the liver.

It has developed a toolkit for practitioners to tackle honour based violence (HBV), which has been welcomed by many local authorities in Wales.

In sub-Saharan Africa and most of Asia and the Pacific, the majority of people become infected with HBV during childhood and 8 to 10 per cent of the general population become chronically infected.

Both hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV) infections are also highly prevalent among injecting drug users, as they are similarly transmitted through blood-to-blood contact during the sharing of contaminated injecting equipment.

In sub-Saharan Africa and most of Asia and the Pacific, the majority of people become infected with HBV during childhood and 8-10 per cent of the general population become chronically infected.

Secondly, it participated in the task on hydrological validation of satellite products on precipitation, snow and soil moisture using hydrological models. Two runoff models (the Hron and HBV models) were prepared for that purpose.