Bibliographic Info
GuidelineUpdated recommendations on treatment of adolescents and children with chronic HCV infection, and HCV simplified service delivery and diagnostics.
Year of Publication2022
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
An assay to detect HCV core (p22) antigen, which has comparable clinical sensitivity to laboratory-based HCV RNA NAT assays, can be an alternative approach to diagnose HCV viraemic infection.
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Originally Developed
Guideline
WHO guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing.
Year2017
InstitutionWHO
Guideline
Updated recommendations on simplified service delivery and disagnostics for hepititis C infection: policy brief.
Year2022
InstitutionWorld Health Organization