Open AccessBuilding a Community - Academic Partnership to Enhance Hepatitis C Virus Screening
Author(s) -
Risha Irvin,
Ayesha McAdams-Mahmoud,
Debra L. Hickman,
James J. Wilson,
W. Soltau Fenwick,
I Chen,
Nathan Irvin,
Oluwaseun FaladeNwulia,
Mark S. Sulkowski,
Richard E. Chaisson,
Dustin Thomas,
Mehta Sh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of community medicine and health education
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2161-0711
DOI - 10.4172/2161-0711.1000431
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c virus , general partnership , logistic regression , hepatitis c , population , antibody , family medicine , immunology , virus , environmental health , political science , law
An estimated 3.5 million Americans are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, the majority are unaware of their HCV diagnosis and few are treated. New models are required to diagnose and link HCV infected patients to HCV care. This paper describes an innovative partnership between Sisters Together and Reaching (STAR), Inc., a community organization, and Johns Hopkins University (JHU), an academic institution, for the identification of HCV cases.