RR - Effectiveness of and best practices for using contingency management and incentives

RR Effectiveness of and best practices for using contingency management and incentives in hepatitis C infection among people who use drugs Question What is the effectiveness of and what are the best practices for using contingency management Rapid Response: Evidence into Action and incentives to support linkage to care and treatment for hepatitis C infection among people The OHTN Rapid Response Se. [...] Data from a prospective observational study contingency management as a strategy to improve HCV (2010–2018) of Canadians (n=1,130) suggests that the introduction linkage to care and treatment of universal access to DAAs initially resulted in an increase in the in persons attending needle number of infected individuals being treated for HCV across the and syringe programs: A pilot country (16). [...] Clients’ perceptions of barriers and This review explores the effectiveness and best practices of financial facilitators to implementing hepatitis C virus care in incentives for the management of HCV infection among people who homeless shelters. [...] Authors concluded that the contingency management incentive led Hepatitis C bio-behavioural to higher linkage to care for participants and such incentives should surveys in people who be considered as a way to improve the HCV treatment cascade for inject drugs-a systematic review of sensitivity to the people who use drugs (4). [...] Site one ran the program detected during the program compared to the from 2013 to 2015, and saw a significant increase years prior, with 27 (12.5%) and 1 (5.2%) HCV in the proportion of Aboriginal clients attending cases detected in each time period, respectively the clinic, which rose from 11% in 2011 to 52% in (38).