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Title: Homelessness, Injection Drug Use Tied to Lower Hepatitis C Cure Rate
Post by: Hep Editors on June 19, 2019, 12:50:38 pm
A program to broadly treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Iceland found that homelessness and injecting drugs were each tied to poorer outcomes.

Presenting their findings at the 53rd International Liver Congress in Vienna, researchers analyzed data from the TraP HepC program in Iceland, which was begun in January 2016 and over its first two years provided direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment to 631 people, an estimated 80 percent of the people living with HCV in Iceland.

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