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Asia, Pacific

• Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver
  • APASL consensus statements and recommendations for hepatitis C prevention, epidemiology, and laboratory testing [2016]

Australia

• Department of Health Australia
  • National Hepatitis C Testing Policy May 2007 [2007]

Brazil

• Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • How are HCV-infected patients being identified in Brazil: a multicenter study [2019]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Screening for Hepatitis C Virus: A Systematic Review [2017]
  • Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Hepatitis C: A Review of Diagnostic Accuracy, Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2016]
  • Hepatitis C Polymorphism Testing: A Review of the Clinical Evidence [2014]

• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  • Recommendations on hepatitis C screening for adults [2017]

• CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • A Canadian screening program for hepatitis C: Is now the time? [2013]

• CMAJ Open
  • Systematic review of the accuracy of antibody tests used to screen asymptomatic adults for hepatitis C infection [2016]

• Government of Alberta
  • Hepatitis C screening in Alberta : a health technology assessment [2016]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Hepatitis C virus

Egypt

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Progress Toward Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus Infection — Egypt, 2001–2012 [2012]

• Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology
  • Interaction Between the Neglected Tropical Disease Human Schistosomiasis and HCV Infection in Egypt: a Puzzling Relationship [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Validation of EGCRISC for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Screening and Risk Assessment in the Egyptian Population [2016]

Europe

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Screening for Migrants in the EU/EEA: A Systematic Review [2018]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • What is the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to reduce hepatitis C infection and the associated morbidity? [2006]

France

• PLoS ONE
  • The Undiagnosed Chronically-Infected HCV Population in France. Implications for Expanded Testing Recommendations in 2014 [2015]

High-income countries

• World Journal of Hepatology
  • Comparison of hepatitis C virus testing recommendations in high-income countries [2018]

International

• BMJ Open
  • Cost-effectiveness of screening for hepatitis C virus: a systematic review of economic evaluations [2016]

• Forum for Collaborative HIV Research
  • Optimising diagnosis of viraemic hepatitis C infection: the development of a target product profile [2017]
  • High-priority target product profile for hepatitis C diagnosis in decentralized settings: Report of a consensus meeting [2015]

Ireland

• Department of Health Ireland
  • Hepatitis C Screening: National Clinical Guideline No. 15 [2017]

Low and middle-income countries

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Economic evaluation of HCV testing approaches in low and middle income countries [2017]

Mexico

• PLoS ONE
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Different Testing Strategies that Use Antibody Levels to Detect Chronic Hepatitis C in Blood Donors [2016]

Middle East, North Africa

• Hepatology Communications
  • Who to Test for Hepatitis C Virus in the Middle East and North Africa?: Pooled Analyses of 2,500 Prevalence Measures, Including 49 Million Tests [2019]

Poland

• BMJ Open
  • What affects response rates in primary healthcare-based programmes? An analysis of individual and unit-related factors associated with increased odds of non-response based on HCV screening in the general population in Poland [2016]

Russia

• PLoS ONE
  • Streamlining the screening cascade for active Hepatitis C in Russia: A cost-effectiveness analysis [2019]

Rwanda

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Risk factors for viral hepatitis C infection in Rwanda: results from a nationwide screening program [2019]

Switzerland

• PLoS ONE
  • Characteristics of Foreign-Born Persons in the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study: Implications for Screening Recommendations [2016]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Birth cohort distribution and screening for viraemic hepatitis C virus infections in Switzerland [2015]

United Kingdom

• EuroSurveillance
  • A comparison of two biological markers of recent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection: implications for the monitoring of interventions and strategies to reduce HCV transmission among people who inject drugs [2018]

• NIHR Journals Library
  • Assessing the impact and cost-effectiveness of needle and syringe provision and opioid substitution therapy on hepatitis C transmission among people who inject drugs in the UK: an analysis of pooled data sets and economic modelling - NCBI Bookshelf [2017]

• Public Health England
  • SMI V 5: Screening for hepatitis C infection
  • Investigation of hepatitis C infection by antibody or combined antigen and antibody assay

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults - Comparative Effectiveness Review Summary Guides for Clinicians [2013]

• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
  • Testing, Evaluation, and Monitoring of Hepatitis C

• American Gastroenterological Association
  • Hepatitis C Screening and Evaluation Clinical Decision Support Tool [2013]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Comparison of Current US Risk Strategy to Screen for Hepatitis C Virus With a Hypothetical Targeted Birth Cohort Strategy [2012]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Vital Signs: Evaluation of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Testing and Reporting — Eight U.S. Sites, 2005–2011 [2013]
  • Testing for HCV Infection: An Update of Guidance for Clinicians and Laboratorians [2013]
  • Locations and Reasons for Initial Testing for Hepatitis C Infection — Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study, United States, 2006–2010 [2013]
  • Recommendations for the Identification of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Persons Born During 1945–1965 [2012]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Initiatives to Prevent Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Selective Update [2012]

• Hepatic Medicine : Evidence and Research
  • Ending hepatitis C in the United States: the role of screening [2014]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
  • Hepatitis C Virus in the US Military Retiree Population: To Screen, or Not to Screen? [2015]

• Seminars in Dialysis
  • Hepatitis C Virus Screening and Management of Seroconversions in Hemodialysis Facilities [2013]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Hepatitis C: Screening [2013]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Collaborative study to evaluate the proposed 4th WHO international standards for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) for Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (NAT)-Based Assays [2011]

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