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Kitsap Public Health outlines hepatitis C surveillance and a pilot to locate and link lost-to-follow-up patients to treatment
Summary
Staff described surveillance work, Apple Health (Medicaid) analyses, and a planned one‑year pilot to find at least 200 people lost to follow-up for hepatitis C testing and offer intensive outreach and linkage to curative treatment.
Kitsap Public Health District staff on May 20 presented the district’s hepatitis C surveillance and linkage-to-care work and described a planned one-year pilot to locate and offer treatment navigation to people who tested positive but were not linked to care.
Program manager Kelsey Steadman reminded the board that hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus, often asymptomatic, and that effective curative treatments exist: “There is a cure. So there's medication out now that is over 95 percent effective in treating hepatitis C,” she said.
Steadman explained the district’s surveillance responsibilities for acute, chronic and perinatal hepatitis C infections and described additional FPHS-funded efforts to investigate cases, provide technical guidance to clinicians, and refer people to treatment and social…
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