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MMWR: Expanding Primary Care Capacity to Treat Hepatitis C Virus Infection Through an Evidence-Based Care Model--Arizona and Utah, 2012-2014

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This report describes the CDC- funded programs beginning September 2012 in Utah and Arizona to improve access to primary care providers with the capacity to manage and treat HCV infection. The programs were modeled on the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) developed by the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center in 2003 to build primary care capacity to treat disease among rural underserved populations through videoconferencing and case-based learning in “teleECHO” clinics.

MMWR: Early Identification and Linkage to Care of Persons with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection––Three U.S. Sites, 2012-2014

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This report describes programs at three sites (New York, New York; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; and San Diego, California) that conducted hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing, in clinical or community settings, and referred for medical evaluation and care those persons whose hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) test results were positive. During October 2012–March 2014, the three sites tested 4,727 persons for HBV infection; 310 (6.6%) were HBsAg-positive.

MMWR: Routine HIV Screening in Two Health-Care Settings –New York City and New Orleans, 2011-2013

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This report describes novel HIV screening programs at the Urban Health Plan (UHP), Inc. in New York City and the Interim Louisiana Hospital (ILH) emergency department in New Orleans. Both received startup funding from Gilead Sciences’ HIV on the Frontlines of Communities in the United States (FOCUS) program to implement routine HIV screening. Both programs identified previously undiagnosed HIV infections. Use of the new testing algorithm allowed the New Orleans program to identify antibody-negative acute infections in five (6%) of the 77 patients with newly diagnosed HIV.

Expanding Primary Care Capacity to Treat Hepatitis C

Submitted by NPIN admin in on

This report describes CDC-funded programs in Utah and Arizona to improve access to primary care providers with the ability to manage and treat HCV infection. The programs were modeled on the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) developed by the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center in 2003 to build primary care capacity to treat disease in rural underserved areas using videoconferencing and case based learning in “teleECHO” clinics.