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Hepatitis C Treatment Is Cost-effective For The US Prison Population

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hepatitis C Treatment Is Cost-effective For The US Prison Population ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) ? Treating all U.S. prisoners who have hepatitis C with the standard therapy of pegylated-interferon and ribavirin would be cost-effective, according to a new study. U.S. prisons incarcerate more than 2 million inmates each year, and between 12 and 31 percent of them are infected with chronic hepatitis C (HCV), mostly related to high rates of intravenous drug use. The current standard treatment for HCV has been shown to be cost-effective in the general population and the Federal Bureau of Prisons recommends HCV treatment for those who meet the AASLD's criteria for treatment, as long as therapy is likely to be completed. However, each state adopts its own set of treatment guidelines, and many prisoners do not ultimately get treated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 26, 2008 (boomark / email).