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Suboptimal Linkage to Care of Delta-Infected Patients in an Area with Increasing Migration-Driven Prevalence of Hepatitis D in Recent Years. [PDF]

Viruses
Background and Aims: Changes in hepatitis delta virus (HDV) epidemiology have been highlighted recently in the context of increasing worldwide migrations.
Carvalho-Gomes Â, Bono A, Gómez L, Sabater S, Rodríguez JC, Palau A, Forés A, Rodríguez M, Pascual S, Cebrià I Iranzo MÀ, Prieto M, Berenguer M.   +11 more
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Hospital-based micro-elimination of hepatitis C virus: improving timely case identification and linkage to care in a tertiary hospital. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
BackgroundDespite the availability of highly effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), gaps in the hepatitis C virus (HCV) care cascade remain major barriers to elimination.
Wang X, Chang L, Kong F, Ma Y, Qin Y.
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Direct collaboration between hospitals and NGOs, an essential tool to reinforce linkage to care in people living with HIV. [PDF]

Sci Rep
With the aim of improving access and engagement to healthcare in people living with HIV (PLHIV), in 2022 Gregorio Marañón Hospital and the NGO COGAM developed a circuit for recruitment and referral to hospital.
Aldámiz-Echevarria T, Fanciulli C, Lopez M, Perez L, Tejerina F, Sanchez D, Lodeiros B, López JC, Berenguer J, Bellon JM, Ferris M, Blazquez M, Calvo A, Domene M, Vegas O, Rodriguez C, Muñoz P, Gijon P, Montilla P, Bermudez E, Valerio M, Alonso R, Padilla B, Ventimilla C, Diez C.   +24 more
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Leave No-One Behind: A Retrospective Study of Hepatitis C Testing and Linkage to Care for Hospital Inpatients

Viruses, 2023
Hospital admissions are a missed opportunity to engage people living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) into care. This study aimed to describe the proportion of hospital inpatients and emergency department (ED) patients identified with hepatitis C who were ...
Christine Roder, Carl Cosgrave, Kathryn Mackie, Stuart K. Roberts, Margaret E. Hellard, Amanda J. Wade, Joseph S. Doyle   +6 more
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Poor linkage to care for HIV-positive OVC with disabled caregivers: a longitudinal study in Tanzania

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Despite extensive efforts to scale up counseling and testing services and care and treatment clinics (CTCs) in Tanzania, linkage between points of diagnosis and CTCs remains low.
Shraddha Bajaria, Amon Exavery, Noreen Toroka, Ramadhani Abdul   +3 more
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Point-of-Care Testing for Hepatitis Viruses: A Growing Need

Life, 2023
Viral hepatitis, caused by hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis D virus (HDV), or hepatitis E virus (HEV), is a major global public health problem.
Matthew D. Pauly, Lilia Ganova-Raeva
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How to best conduct universal HIV screening in emergency departments is far from settled

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
HIV screening in the emergency department (ED), including universal screening irrespective of risk assessments, has shown strong promise in past studies, identifying many new cases of HIV infection among those who lack access to traditional HIV testing ...
Daniel J. Escudero, Monica Bahamon, Patricia Panakos, Daniel Hercz, George R. Seage III, Roland C. Merchant   +5 more
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Understanding factors influencing linkage to HIV care in a rural setting, Mbeya, Tanzania: qualitative findings of a mixed methods study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background In remote rural Tanzania, the rate of linkage into HIV care was estimated at 28% in 2014. This study explored facilitators and barriers to linkage to HIV care at individual/patient, health care provider, health system, and contextual levels to
Erica S. Sanga, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Adiel K. Mushi, Wondwossen Lerebo, Christina Zarowsky   +4 more
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Elimination of Hepatitis C in Southern Italy: A Model of HCV Screening and Linkage to Care among Hospitalized Patients at Different Hospital Divisions

Viruses, 2022
Background: Free-of-charge HCV screening in some key populations and in 1969–1989 birth cohorts has been funded in Italy as the first step to diagnosing individuals who are infected but asymptomatic.
Valerio Rosato, Loreta A. Kondili, Riccardo Nevola, Pasquale Perillo, Davide Mastrocinque, Alessio Aghemo, Ernesto Claar   +6 more
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Characterizing a Leak in the HIV Care Cascade: Assessing Linkage Between HIV Testing and Care in Tanzania

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Background: In Tanzania, HIV testing data are reported aggregately for national surveillance, making it difficult to accurately measure the extent to which newly diagnosed persons are entering care, which is a critical step of the HIV care cascade.
Richelle Harklerode, Jim Todd, Mariken de Wit, James Beard, Mark Urassa, Richard Machemba, Bernard Maduhu, James Hargreaves, Geoffrey Somi, Brian Rice   +9 more
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