HCV Elimination in Central Europe with Particular Emphasis on Microelimination in Prisons
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023001%3A_____%2F22%3A00082460" target="_blank" >RIV/00023001:_____/22:00082460 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/3/482/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/3/482/htm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14030482" target="_blank" >10.3390/v14030482</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
HCV Elimination in Central Europe with Particular Emphasis on Microelimination in Prisons
Original language description
In 2016, the WHO announced a plan to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. In this narrative review, experts from Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia assessed the feasibility of achieving the WHO 2030 target for HCV infections in Central Europe. They focused mainly on HCV micro-elimination in prisons, where the highest incidence of HCV infections is usually observed, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the detection and treatment of HCV infections. According to the presented estimates, almost 400,000 people remain infected with HCV in the analyzed countries. Interferon-free therapies are available ad libitum, but the number of patients treated annually in the last two years has halved compared to 2017-2019, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. None of the countries analyzed had implemented a national HCV screening program or a prison screening program. The main reason is a lack of will at governmental and prison levels. None of the countries analyzed see any chance of meeting the WHO targets for removing viral hepatitis from the public threat list by 2030, unless barriers such as a lack of political will and a lack of screening programs are removed quickly.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10607 - Virology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Viruses-Basel
ISSN
1999-4915
e-ISSN
1999-4915
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
"Art. no. 482"
UT code for WoS article
000774414700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85125661038