Feasibility of Treating Hepatitis C in a Transient Jail Population

Jails represent a critical component of the public health response to HCV elimination. We report on outcomes of 104 patients receiving HCV treatment from January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016 in a large urban jail setting. Our data demonstrate that treatment in jails is feasible, but many barriers remain...

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Autores principales: MacDonald, Ross, Akiyama, Matthew J, Kopolow, Aimee, Rosner, Zachary, McGahee, Wendy, Joseph, Rodrigue, Jaffer, Mohamed, Venters, Homer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5569928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx142
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author MacDonald, Ross
Akiyama, Matthew J
Kopolow, Aimee
Rosner, Zachary
McGahee, Wendy
Joseph, Rodrigue
Jaffer, Mohamed
Venters, Homer
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spelling pubmed-55699282017-08-29 Feasibility of Treating Hepatitis C in a Transient Jail Population MacDonald, Ross Akiyama, Matthew J Kopolow, Aimee Rosner, Zachary McGahee, Wendy Joseph, Rodrigue Jaffer, Mohamed Venters, Homer Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Jails represent a critical component of the public health response to HCV elimination. We report on outcomes of 104 patients receiving HCV treatment from January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016 in a large urban jail setting. Our data demonstrate that treatment in jails is feasible, but many barriers remain. Oxford University Press 2017-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5569928/ /pubmed/28852680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx142 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Feasibility of Treating Hepatitis C in a Transient Jail Population
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