JPAC Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee

4. Person Currently or Formerly Sharing a Home with an Affected Individual

Discretionary

Accept.

See if Relevant

Current or Former Sexual Partner of Affected Individual, above.  

Additional Information

Hepatitis C is neither contagious nor spread by the faecal-oral route. It is usually only spread through a direct blood to blood route. For these reasons household contacts do not need to be deferred.

Reason for change

See below