Accelerating Hepatitis C Elimination in the United States

2022 State Plan for Hepatitis C

In the U.S., 20 to 30 percent of PLWH are also living with hepatitis C. HIV accelerates hepatitis C disease progression, and the risk of serious liver damage is ...

Striving for a Healthier Future: Combating HIV and Hepatitis C ...

More than 15,000 people die of hepatitis C in the U.S. every year. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons including lack of health insurance, ...

The Urgent Need to Implement Point-of-Care RNA Testing ... - NATAP

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination is an important global public health goal. However, the United States is not on track to meet the World Health ...

FDA Permits Marketing of First Point-of-Care Hepatitis C RNA Test

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization to Cepheid for the Xpert HCV test and GeneXpert Xpress System, ...

Accelerating the elimination of hepatitis C in Kuwait - NET

A modeling study on the impact of enhanced screening and treatment on HCV in the US estimated a significant reduction in HCV-related deaths.

Hepatitis Happenings and Updates - NASTAD

The five-year mandatory program seeks to “significantly expand screening, testing, treatment, prevention, and monitoring of hepatitis C ...

International Viral Hepatitis Elimination Meeting IVHEM 2022 | AME

Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, Task Force for Global Health, United States. #10 Changes in hepatitis B and hepatitis C mortality rates in ...

The Country of Georgia Makes Inroads Reducing Chronic Hepatitis ...

As modeling estimates indicate, the United States will not meet its hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination goal by 2030, but a new survey found ...

Taiwan accelerates its efforts to eliminate hepatitis C

Hopefully, we can achieve early elimination by announcing the treatment target of 250000 CHC patients by 2025. Keywords: HCV elimination, Taiwan's effort, ...

Innovation in HCV serology assays - Roche Diagnostics

In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved a global health sector strategy to achieve elimination of viral hepatitis C, as a major public health ...

Ten steps to eliminating hepatitis C in hospitals - Nature

Without such innovative approaches, it will be difficult to achieve the WHO targets in support of the 2030 HCV elimination goal. WHO calls for ...

Elimination of Hepatitis C Virus in a Dialysis Population

A total of 3,657 patients from 31 dialysis facilities were enrolled. All patients completed HCV screening. The DAA treatment initiation rate and ...

WINNING THE RACE TO ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C

HCV elimination will not occur without prioritizing this matter, committing the needed resources, and accelerating efforts. Countries must ...

Accelerating the elimination of hepatitis C in Kuwait

One of the goals of the US national viral hepatitis action plan specifically focuses on coordinating, monitoring, and reporting on the ...

Progress towards hepatitis C virus elimination in high‐income ...

Assuming high-income countries will maintain current levels of diagnosis and treatment, only 24% are on track to eliminate HCV by 2030, and 60% are off track ...

Estimating the Year Each State in the United States Will Achieve the ...

Results: Overall, the USA is projected to achieve HCV elimination by 2037, with individual targets related to mortality, diagnosis, treatment, and incidence ...

Response to Taiwan is on track of accelerating hepatitis C ...

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Progress Towards Elimination of Viral Hepatitis - hepCoalition

The Commission update focuses on national progress among the 20 countries most heavily burdened with viral hepatitis (75% of the global ...

Egypt's Ambitious Strategy to Eliminate Hepatitis C Virus: A Case ...

Egypt's HCV elimination efforts intensified with the inauguration of the 100 Million Healthy Lives campaign. Efficiency became a priority. To ...

HCV Testing and Linkage to Care

All persons for whom HCV screening is recommended should initially be tested for HCV antibody (CDC, 2013); (Alter, 2003) using an assay approved by the US Food ...