Point-of-care hepatitis C testing and treatment strategy for people attending harm reduction and addiction centres for hepatitis C elimination.

ABSTRACT: According to WHO goals, the elimination of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) by 2030 requires enhancing and simplifying HCV testing. Our aim was to create a model to assess and compare different strategies for HCV testing, linkage to care and treatment among people who access harm reduction centres (HRC) and Addiction Centres in Catalonia. A decision tree model was designed to evaluate two strategies: Hepatitis C Point-of-care (POC) "test and treat", at the community versus standard-of-care (SOC), in which HCV testing was performed at community and therapy at the hospital. Both strategies were assessed separately in HRCs (6,878 users) and Addiction Centres (13,778 users). with a time horizon of 18 months. Healthcare outcomes were HCV testing, linkage to care, treatment outcomes and reinfection rate.

SUBMITTER: Forns X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299793 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature