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“Hepatitis C used to have targeted risk-based screening where you had to remember this laundry list of risk factors that included receipt of a blood donation before 1992 or a history of ...

Who should get tested? DHA released the following list of priority groups for Hepatitis C screening. “If you see yourself in this list, ensure you get tested,” the authority said.

In 2017, the Irish national hepatitis C screening guidelines recommended a screening programme for this cohort. A health technology assessment concluded it would be cost effective on the basis of ...

But given historically insufficient testing, experts say past U.S. estimates of hepatitis C likely underrepresented how many people have the virus. Testing also slowed during the pandemic.

Advocates say as many as 3.9 million people are living with chronic hepatitis C. Now doctors are using a new method to treat mothers before they pass the virus down to their children.

Kareena Wasserman found out she had hepatitis C when she was pregnant with her second child. "I can remember being in the airport and crying, that this was not what we wanted," she said.