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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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Extending a Helping Hand: Addressing Hepatitis C in Economic Migrants and Refugees.

TL;DR: An important struggle in the challenge to address HCV globally is highlighted with a program to screen for HCV along with hepatitis B virus and HIV in economic migrants and refugees in Southern Italy and it is important to recognize that therapy is necessary but entirely insufficient to achieve elimination.
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A multi-level intervention to eliminate hepatitis c from the region of southern denmark. The c-free south strategy

TL;DR: The “C-Free-South” strategy aims to eliminate HCV in the authors' region by identifying and treating 90% and treating 80% of infected persons by the end of 2025, 5 years earlier than the WHO elimination target date.
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A multi-level intervention to eliminate hepatitis C from the Region of Southern Denmark: the C-Free-South project

TL;DR: In this paper , a local action plan was developed in the Region of Southern Denmark (RSD) to diagnose 90% of HCV-infected persons and treat 80% of those diagnosed by 2025.
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Hepatitis C elimination - Macro-elimination.

TL;DR: To achieve the WHO goals by 2030, awareness of HCV must increase and the cascade of care must be improved and implemented, Diagnostic procedures and treatment should be affordable and universally available.
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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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