Research Article: Analysis of Patients’ Characteristics and Treatment Profile of People Who Use Drugs (PWUDs) with and without a Co-Diagnosis of Viral Hepatitis C: A Real-World Retrospective Italian Analysis
Introduction:
The advent of direct-antiviral agents (DAA), pangenotypic and efficacious treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV) allowed to envisage a worldwide HCV elimination as determined during the th World Health Assembly and set as WHO’s goal of resolving viral hepatitis as a primary public healthcare emergency by . Although HCV is still a “silent pandemic”, the ambitious goal of its elimination might be achievable also through the implementation of country-based prevention practices that should point out the close link…
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