The World Health Organization has a goal to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. The bloodborne virus affects more than 2 million people in the United States and killed more than 15,700 people nationwide in 2018, even though more than 95% of people infected with hepatitis C can be cured if they get the pills to treat the disease. But a significant number of U.S. state prisons are failing to adequately address this curable disease, as approximately 55% of people in U.S. state prisons who had been infected are still not cured, according to a new Emory-led study – published Friday in The Journal of Infectious Diseases .

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