Screening against hepatitis C in Sassari.
The SoS project (Sreening_on_Serd) starts in Sassari, an initiative foreradication of hepatitis C. A simple test performed on capillary blood through a finger prick: this small gesture to find out if you are a carrier of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and promptly intervene with a treatment capable of eliminating the virus and consequently block the infection and the progression of the disease.
The goal of the project is rto educate the population belonging to the Serd on the pathologyoffer useful advice to implement harm reduction behaviors and perform a rapid screening on capillary blood to identify carriers and to be able to initiate them to a treatment that today allows them to heal completely in a short time. The reason why screening is important is that i patients afferent to the Serd are socially more complex subjects and they turn out to be the most exposed to the acquisition and spread of infectious diseases such as HCV.
The business does will take place in the two Serd of Sassari during the opening hours of the clinic. Patients will be explained the importance of screening, the importance of prevention and early diagnosis. The early knowledge of any positivity, in fact, constitutes the premise of an equally timely treatment that will avoid the progression of the HCV infection towards severe liver diseases with a radical improvement in the quality of future life expectancy and with a huge impact on public health.
The test will be carried out free of charge at the Serd by experienced health professionals e will provide a result within a few minutes. The Serd and Infectious Diseases specialists will be available for any doubts or questions and information material on Hepatitis C will be distributed.
