Free Hepatitis C screening and treatment now included in the Dubai Mandatory Health Insurance Scheme.
- The basic benefit plan under the mandatory health insurance scheme to cover screening and treatment of Hepatitis C
- All Dubai visa holders (who automatically by law have the mandatory health insurance cover) are now eligible for Hepatitis C screening as per international best practice criteria.
- The initiative will especially benefit those with limited insurance coverage and will reduce late detection of the disease.
- Joint efforts of the Authority, pharmaceutical companies and insurance providers with an aim to focus on preventive community medicine, led to the culmination of this initiative.
- Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus: the virus can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis, ranging in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, lifelong illness.
- The hepatitis C virus is a blood borne virus and the most common modes of infection are through exposure to small quantities of blood. This may happen through injection drug use, unsafe injection practices, unsafe health care, and the transfusion of unscreened blood and blood products.
- Globally, an estimated 71 million people have chronic hepatitis C infection.
- A significant number of those who are chronically infected will develop cirrhosis or liver cancer.
- Approximately 399,000 people die each year from hepatitis C, mostly from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (type of liver cancer).
- Antiviral medicines can cure more than 95% of persons with hepatitis C infection, thereby reducing the risk of death from liver cancer and cirrhosis, but access to diagnosis and treatment is low.
- There is currently no vaccine for hepatitis C; however, research in this area is ongoing.
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