A new study from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases reports that over 2 million people in the United States had current HCV infection during 2013‐2016. The findings of the study suggest that the previous 2013-2016 US HCV prevalence estimate derived from NHANES alone underestimates the actual number of HCV antibody–positive persons by approximately 0.38 million persons and the number of HCV RNA–positive persons by approximately 0.25 million persons.
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Conducted at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), this report identifies the barriers to greater integration of OUD and infectious disease services and Read more…
On September 10, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released their 2017 Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Report. The report comes after the World Health Assembly in 2016, where the United States agreed to Read more…
“The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau released its bi-annual Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Highlights. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s “C Ya!” project, which aimed to reduce disparities related to HCV co-infection Read more…