Introduction

Egypt succeeded in establishing a successful model of care for hepatitis C virus (HCV) management in the country with the highest worldwide disease prevalence. The Egyptian ministry of health announced an optimistic goal of near disease elimination. More steps are still required to achieve such a goal.

Areas covered

This review covers the efforts made in treatment and prevention of HCV by the Egyptian National Committee for the Control of Viral Hepatitis (NCCVH) with emphasis on the extensive screening program that was able to screen more than 57 million citizens, and future strategies implemented to ensure eradicating the virus from the country.

Expert opinion

Despite the great efforts and the proven success in controlling the HCV epidemic in Egypt, some facets of the Egyptian program still need to be upgraded to reach the HCV elimination goal. A significant workload with follow up programs for those who were successfully treated, and treatment failure cases are existing. More enhancement for the currently performed prevention and control measure is missing. Also, we strongly recommend conducting a recent nationwide survey to document the actual infection rates of HCV after all these efforts.

中文翻译：

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从筛查5700万公民和治疗400万患者中脱颖而出：消除埃及丙型肝炎的未来策略。

介绍

埃及成功建立了成功的丙型肝炎病毒治疗管理模式，该国的疾病流行率最高。埃及卫生部宣布了消除疾病的乐观目标。为了实现这一目标，仍然需要采取更多步骤。

覆盖区域

这项审查涵盖了埃及全国病毒性肝炎控制委员会（NCCVH）在治疗和预防HCV方面所做的努力，重点在于能够筛查5700万以上公民的广泛筛查计划，以及为确保感染者的健康而实施的未来策略根除来自该国的病毒。

专家意见

尽管在控制埃及HCV流行方面做出了巨大努力并取得了成功，但埃及计划的某些方面仍然需要升级，以实现HCV消除目标。对于成功治疗的患者以及后续治疗失败的病例，后续计划的工作量很大。缺少对当前执行的预防和控制措施的更多增强。此外，我们强烈建议您进行一次近期的全国性调查，以记录所有这些努力后HCV的实际感染率。