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Interventions to enhance testing, linkage to care and treatment uptake for hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: A systematic review

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In the direct acting antiviral treatment era, well-designed studies evaluating interventions to enhance a simplified care cascade are crucial in facilitating treatment scale-up.
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This article is published in International Journal of Drug Policy.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 158 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Clinical trial.

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Evaluation of contingency management as a strategy to improve HCV linkage to care and treatment in persons attending needle and syringe programs: A pilot study.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the efficacy of contingency management (CM) for improving HCV linkage to care, treatment initiation, adherence, and cure for PWID recruited from a needle and syringe program.
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ITTREAT (Integrated Community Test ‐ stage ‐ TREAT) Hepatitis C Service for People who Use Drugs: Real World Outcomes

TL;DR: This work aimed to report real‐world clinical, patient reported and health economic outcomes of community‐based hepatitis C virus screening/treatment in people who use drugs (PWUDs).
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Prevalence and high risk behaviours associated with HCV testing among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and Meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Finding of present study was that unprotected sex had a negative association with HCV testing, and prevention programs that address age, sex, and level of education are strongly recommended to prioritize HCV risk reduction strategies.
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ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions.

TL;DR: Risk of Bias In Non-randomised Studies - of Interventions is developed, a new tool for evaluating risk of bias in estimates of the comparative effectiveness of interventions from studies that did not use randomisation to allocate units or clusters of individuals to comparison groups.
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The Spectrum of Engagement in HIV Care and its Relevance to Test-and-Treat Strategies for Prevention of HIV Infection

TL;DR: The spectrum of engagement in care for HIV-infected individuals in the United States is reviewed and this information is applied to help understand the magnitude of the challenges that pooragement in care will pose to test-and-treat strategies for HIV prevention.
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Global epidemiology of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in people who inject drugs: results of systematic reviews

TL;DR: More IDUs have anti-HCV than HIV infection, and viral hepatitis poses a key challenge to public health, which will inform efforts to prevent and treat HCV and HBV in IDUs.
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