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Scaling-up HCV treatment to achieve WHO targets by 2030

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Editorial
Scaling-up HCV treatment to achieve WHO targets by 2030
Graham Cooke

Accepted manuscript online: 10 January 2017
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12837

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Abstract
WHO recently launched a new strategy for tackling viral hepatitis with ambitious goals for reducing both deaths and new infections by 2030 [1]. Antiviral therapy is one only part of a multi-faceted strategy needed to tackle viral hepatitis, but for hepatitis C (HCV), the absence of an effective vaccine means that achieving these targets is going to require substantial scale-up of HCV treatment. Reaching the target of treating 80% of those in need by 2030 will require reaching at least 70 million people [2].....

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