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
Low
Point-of-care (POC) HCV RNA assays: The use of HCV point-of-care (POC) viral load NAT assay can be an alternative approach to laboratory-based HCV RNA NAT assays to diagnose HCV viraemic infection.
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Originally Developed
Guideline
Updated recommendations on simplified service delivery and disagnostics for hepititis C infection: policy brief.
Year2022
InstitutionWorld Health Organization