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. 2021 Feb 28;17(2):75-80.
doi: 10.1002/cld.1023. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence, Screening, and Treatment Among People Who Are Incarcerated in Canada: Leaving No One Behind in the Direct-Acting Antiviral Era

Sofia R Bartlett  1   2   3 , Jane Buxton  3   4 , Adam Palayew  5 , Camila A Picchio  6 , Naveed Z Janjua  3   4 , Nadine Kronfli  7
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Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence, Screening, and Treatment Among People Who Are Incarcerated in Canada: Leaving No One Behind in the Direct-Acting Antiviral Era

Sofia R Bartlett et al. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). .
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Most recent published HCV (Hep C) antibody prevalence estimates among men and women who are incarcerated federally and provincially in Canada (see Table 1 for a detailed breakdown and references). See http://www.hepcorrections.org/map for a similar map of HCV antibody prevalence among people who are incarcerated in the United States (map by Emory Center for the Health of Incarcerated Persons and MGH Institute for Technology Assessment).
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