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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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Performance evaluation of the Hologic Aptima HCV Quant Dx assay for detection of HCV RNA from dried blood spots.

TL;DR: The data indicates that the Aptima HCV Dx Quant can detect active HCV infection from a DBS sample with good sensitivity and specificity, particularly when using a threshold of ≥1000 IU/mL.
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Reducing Read Time of Point-of-Care Test Does Not Affect Detection of Hepatitis C Virus and Reduces Need for Reflex RNA.

TL;DR: The wait time for the OraQuick HCV Rapid antibody POC blood test can be reduced from 20 min to 5 min and continue to reliably identify patients with HCV infection, which could increase high-throughput screening, reduce loss to follow up, and reduce the need for reflex HCV RNA testing.
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HIV and the liver.

TL;DR: Among individuals with HIV infection, liver disease remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality, even with the availability of agents that cure hepatitis C infection and suppress hepatitis B replication.
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Evaluation of a hepatitis C virus core antigen assay from venepuncture and dried blood spot collected samples: A cohort study

TL;DR: Data indicate that the detection of HCVcAg is a useful tool for determining active HCV infection; to facilitate enhanced testing, linkage to care and treatment particularly when testing plasma samples are collected by venepuncture.
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Integrating Care for Diabetes and Hypertension with HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review

TL;DR: The review confirms that integrated HIV and NCD care services is by-and-large feasible, being both clinically effective and cost-effective.
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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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