Screening and Treatment Program to Eliminate Hepatitis C in Egypt

In 2018, the Egyptian government initiated a massive hepatitis C screening and treatment program. The Ministry of Health set the goal of screening all adults (target population, 62.5 million) within 1 year and provided treatment paid for by the government. Nearly 50 million people participated in sc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2020-03, Vol.382 (12), p.1166-1174
Hauptverfasser:	Waked, Imam, Esmat, Gamal, Elsharkawy, Aisha, El-Serafy, Magdy, Abdel-Razek, Wael, Ghalab, Reham, Elshishiney, Galal, Salah, Aysam, Abdel Megid, Soad, Kabil, Khaled, El-Sayed, Manal H, Dabbous, Hany, El Shazly, Yehia, Abo Sliman, Mohamed, Abou Hashem, Khalid, Abdel Gawad, Sayed, El Nahas, Nevine, El Sobky, Ahmed, El Sonbaty, Sahar, El Tabakh, Hamdy, Emad, Ehab, Gemeah, Hany, Hashem, Amal, Hassany, Mohamed, Hefnawy, Naseif, Hemida, Abdel N, Khadary, Ayman, Labib, Kamal, Mahmoud, Faisal, Mamoun, Said, Marei, Tamer, Mekky, Saad, Meshref, Alsayeda, Othman, Alaa, Ragab, Omnia, Ramadan, Elhag, Rehan, Ahmed, Saad, Tarek, Saeed, Ramy, Sharshar, Mohamed, Shawky, Hesham, Shawky, Mohamed, Shehata, Wael, Soror, Hanaa, Taha, Mohsen, Talha, Mahmoud, Tealaab, Adel, Zein, Mohamed, Hashish, Alaa, Cordie, Ahmed, Omar, Yasser, Kamal, Ehab, Ammar, Islam, AbdAlla, Mohamed, El Akel, Wafaa, Doss, Wahid, Zaid, Hala
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Advertising campaigns Antiviral Agents - economics Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use Costs Diagnostic tests Egypt - epidemiology Female General & Internal Medicine Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data Hepatitis Hepatitis C Hepatitis C, Chronic - diagnosis Hepatitis C, Chronic - drug therapy Hepatitis C, Chronic - epidemiology Hepatitis C, Chronic - prevention & control Humans Imidazoles - economics Imidazoles - therapeutic use Immunoglobulins Infections Laboratories Life Sciences & Biomedicine Male Mass Screening - economics Mass Screening - methods Medicine, General & Internal Middle Aged Patients Science & Technology Seroepidemiologic Studies Sofosbuvir - economics Sofosbuvir - therapeutic use Television advertising Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	In 2018, the Egyptian government initiated a massive hepatitis C screening and treatment program. The Ministry of Health set the goal of screening all adults (target population, 62.5 million) within 1 year and provided treatment paid for by the government. Nearly 50 million people participated in screening, and approximately 1 million patients were treated for HCV infection.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMsr1912628