Author information
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Treatment Action Group, 90 Broad Street, Suite 2503, New York, NY 10004, USA.
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VOCAL-NY, 80-A Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA.
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Harm Reduction Coalition, 22 West 27th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA.
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Housing Works, 57 Willoughby Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.
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San Francisco Department of Public Health, 25 Van Ness, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA.
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Project Inform, 273 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
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Facente Consulting, 5601 Van Fleet Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804, USA.
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Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General, University of California San Francisco, Box 0874, 995 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
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Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School, 122 Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA.
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Division of Infectious Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street LMOB Suite GB, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: cgraham@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Abstract
The United States has national plans for the elimination of hepatitis C virus but much of US health care is organized on the state level and requires local solutions. This article describes the plans developed by New York, Massachusetts, and the city/county of San Francisco for hepatitis C virus elimination. Coalitions capitalize on existing resources and advocate for new resources to address barriers in hepatitis C virus care. Although each coalition has distinct plans, all share a commitment to groups that are disproportionately affected and are at risk for being excluded from advances in hepatitis C virus treatment and cure.