Challenges to Achieving HCV Micro-Elimination in People With HIV in the United States: Provider Perspectives and the Role of Implicit Bias.
The prevalence of HIV/HCV (hepatitis C virus) co-infection is high particularly in persons who inject drugs (PWID) and is increasing because of the evolving opioid epidemic in the United States. The introduction of effective antiviral medications for HCV has raised the strategic goal of HCV micro-el...
| Publicado en: | Health Promotion Practice Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 998 - 1009 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2023
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