Current Efforts on HCV Elimination in Hong Kong “There is still a long way to go if Hong Kong were to achieve the WHO goal by 2030,” commented Dr. Mak. Indeed, a retrospective study by Hui et al (2018) involving 11,309 anti-HCV positive ...

Current Handling of HCV Treatment With the current approach of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, Hong Kong has aligned itself with the World Health Organization (WHO) strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030 1 ....

Pharmacological Advantages of TAF over TDF Both TDF and TAF are recommended as the first-line therapy for CHB management 5 . However, TAF is more stable than TDF in plasma and delivers the active metabolite to hepatocytes more efficiently, allowing ...

Broken Linkage to Care According to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally there were less than 5% of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients who received an HCV diagnosis whereas less than 1% received HCV treatment 1 . Recently, Hui et al ...