Hep C Treatment Declining

Itʻs Going Down

The CDC’s first estimates on hepatitis C treatment initiation show the number of people who initiated treatment in the U.S. declined from 2015 to 2020.

 The study found more than 843,000 people initiated curative hepatitis C treatment during this time period, an average of 120,000 people each year. This is far short of the 260,000 people that need to be treated annually to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030, as estimated by the National Academies of Science and Medicine in 2015. CDC estimates about 2.4 million people were living with hepatitis C in the U.S. between 2013-2016.