Early performance of a decentralised, primary-care hepatitis C programme in Cambodia: a retrospective programme evaluation, 2024.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Real-world evidence on decentralised, primary-care delivery for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the Western Pacific is limited. We evaluated Cambodia's national, primary care-led HCV programme in 2024.

Methods

We analysed facility-level data from 256 health facilities in 15 operational districts to assess six HCV cascade steps: screening, anti-HCV positivity, RNA testing, viraemia, treatment initiation, and treatment completion. Design-based survey estimators were used to estimate proportions with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). To account for multi-stage design (clustering within operational districts), design-based generalised linear models were utilised to assess the factors associated with viraemia, treatment initiation and completion.

Findings

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SUBMITTER: Soputhy C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12689191 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature