Fead Urges the Search for People Diagnosed with Hepatitis C Who Did Not Receive Treatment

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The president of the Fundación del Aparato Digestivo (FEAD), Marta Casado, has suggested that initiatives to eliminate hepatitis C include the search for patients who were diagnosed in the past, but did not receive treatment, in addition to the identification of those who suffer from the disease and do not know it.

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The first, and probably the most important, was the launch in Spain 2015 of the Strategic Plan for the approach to hepatitis C in the National Health System (NSS), within the framework of the strategy for the elimination of the disease at the global level of the World Health Organization (WHO). At that time, there were between 350,000 and 375,000 people affected in our country. In 2017, universal access to antiviral treatment allowed the cure of…

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Spain could be one of the first countries to achieve the goal of eliminating hepatitis C as a public health problem by 2030, established by the WHO in 2016. It is that the incidence of this disease in our country has decreased "drastically" in the last 10 years, as explained by the Spanish Foundation of Digestive Apparatus (FEAD). In fact, today, it is close to being considered a rare disease.