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Hawai‘i Island Community Health Center not just managing Hepatitis C, it’s ‘eliminating it’

A pharmacy-led initiative that delivers medications and actively seeks out at-risk people resulted in the state’s largest nonprofit community health center achieving a stunning 71% cure rate — more than double the national average of just 33% — offering new hope in the fight against one of the most deadly and often overlooked diseases.

Report: Deaths associated with with hepatitis C happening at earlier age in Hawaiʻi

The report released by the Hawaiʻi Department of Health found most Hawaiʻi residents who died from causes related to the virus did not reach age 75, younger than the 2021 life expectancy in the United States.

Department of Health report identifies opportunities to eliminate Hepatitis C among vulnerable communities

The landmark report used qualitative research methods to seek guidance from people who use drugs on ways to increase the use of curative hepatitis C treatment.