Moving beyond risk-based testing: Checklist for supporting hepatitis C birth cohort screening
19 juillet 2021 • Par Dr. Sofia Bartlett, Stephanie Gin and Dr. Terri Buller-TaylorBritish Columbia is the first province or territory in Canada to recommend one-time birth cohort screening for hepatitis C among people born from 1945 to 1965. This birth cohort has been identified as a key population that needs to be engaged into hepatitis C virus (HCV) care to reduce liver disease complications for several reasons: there are many undiagnosed cases of hepatitis C, they account for nearly 60% of positive hepatitis C results in B.C., and many people in this cohort have not received confirmatory HCV RNA testing.