Screening and Treatment Program to Eliminate Hepatitis C in Egypt

Imam Waked¹, Gamal Esmat¹, Aisha Elsharkawy¹+54

• ¹From the Hepatology Department, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebeen El Kom (I.W., W.A.-R.), and the Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University (G. Esmat, A.E., M.E.-S., A.C., W.E.A., W.D.), the Ministry of Health and Population (R.G., G. Elshishiney, A.S., S.A.M., M.A.S., K.A.H., S.A.G., N.E.N., A.E.S., S.E.S., H.E.T., E.E., H.G., A. Hashem, N.H., A.N.H., A.K., K.L., F.M., S. Mamoun, T.M., S. Mekky, A.M., A.O., O.R., E.R., A.R., T.S., R.S., M. Sharshar, H. Shawky, M. Shawky, W.S., H. Soror, M. Taha, M. Talha, A.T., M.Z., H.Z.), the National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis (K.K.), the Pediatrics Department (M.H.E.-S.), the Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Department (H.D.), and the Department of Medicine (Y.E.S., Y.O.), Ain Shams University, the Hepatology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (M.H.), the Communicable Diseases Control Cluster, World Health Organization (A. Hashish), the Medical Research Division, National Research Center (E.K., M.A.), and the Tropical Medicine Department, Al-Azhar University (I.A.), Cairo - all in Egypt.