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Aided by new funds from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is extending new antiviral treatments to all veterans with hepatitis C treated within its sprawling health care systemâregardless of the stage of their illness and whether they contracted these infections during military service.
The move puts the VA at the forefront of combatting the nationâs deadliest infectious disease, which kills more people in the United States than HIV, tuberculosis, pneumoccocal disease, and dozens of other infectious conditions combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The government agency is now beginning hepatitis C antiviral therapy for 1100 patients a weekâdouble the figure from a year agoâand hopes to increase that number to 2000 patients a week by the end of this year, said David Ross, MD, director of the VAâs HIV, hepatitis, and public health pathogens programs.
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