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“Nurse-led HCV care model results in 95% or higher SVR rates in prison: A decentralized, nurse-led model of hepatitis C care with direct-acting antivirals was significantly effective and led to high levels of sustained virologic response in a large cohort of inmates, according to a recently published study…” Read more…
https://www.healio.com/hepatology/hepatitis-c/news/online/%7B33a10536-2c18-4632-9f19-995fafe9dd16%7D/nurse-led-hcv-care-model-results-in-95-or-higher-svr-rates-in-prison
See also a previous HepCBC article about another Australian prison HCV elimination study which was running concurrently with the above study, using a “Sexual Health Service” model…
http://hepcbc.bchep.org/2018/10/05/is-hepatitis-c-virus-micro-elimination-feasible-among-prison-populations-lets-look-at-the-worlds-first-prison-to-eliminate-hepatitis-c/