A peer-led recruitment strategy proved highly successful in engaging people who use drugs in testing and treatment for hepatitis C in the French city of Montpellier, researchers from the University of Montpellier report in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
They say their strategy has the potential to engage people who use drugs who are harder to reach and not in touch with drugs services or physicians. The peer recruitment strategy reached approximately one-third of people who use drugs in Montpellier within three months and identified 49 people eligible for hepatitis C treatment.
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