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Cocaine Use and Hepatitis C Infection: What’s the Link?

February 5, 2020

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has set a goal to significantly reduce HCV-related morbidity and mortality rates by 2030, HCV continues to pose a major public health threat.

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Women of Reproductive Age: An Important Opportunity to Curtail the HCV Epidemic

Christina Loguidice

November 20, 2019

Investigators found data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System that showed hepatitis C virus infection rates doubled among women of reproductive age between 2006 and 2014.

A goal of the strategy to reduce new viral hepatitis infections by 90% and to reduce the number of deaths due to viral hepatitis by 65% by 2030 from 2016 figures.

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Alternative Hepatitis Testing Tools Facilitate WHO’s Goal of Hepatitis Elimination

Christina Loguidice

June 26, 2019

Researchers found data that showed initiatives to test for hepatitis are vital to decrease infections because many patients remain asymptomatic for years, which is when chronic infection leads to complications.

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Christina Loguidice

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Cocaine Use and Hepatitis C Infection: What’s the Link?

Women of Reproductive Age: An Important Opportunity to Curtail the HCV Epidemic

Alternative Hepatitis Testing Tools Facilitate WHO’s Goal of Hepatitis Elimination

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