Evaluations of Community-based Healthcare Management for Patients with Chronic Viral Hepatitis - Shanghai Municipality, China, 2012-2023.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Current strategies for chronic viral hepatitis prevention and control include immunization, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, expanded testing, antiviral therapy, and national drug price negotiations. To advance high-quality, integrated prevention and treatment services, a decentralized service delivery approach may be beneficial.

What Is Added By This Report?: The chronic viral hepatitis community-based healthcare management program in Shanghai delivered comprehensive service packages across 4 categories encompassing 10 distinct interventions, including epidemiological investigation, health education, free testing, community dispensing services, and immunization to family caregivers.

The distribution of hepatitis C virus infection in Shanghai, China: a time-spatial study.

Background: Shanghai, as a pilot city of China to achieve the goal of eliminating hepatitis C, its strategy of allocating medical resources is a pressing problem to be solved. This study aims to infer the time-spatial clustering patterns of HCV-infected cases, and grasp the dynamic genotype distribution of HCV, thereby inform elimination strategies of HCV with efficacy and efficiency.

Methods: Reported HCV cases including their demographic information in Shanghai city from 2005 to 2018 were released from the National Infectious Disease Reporting Information System, population data at community scale, geographical layers of hospitals, communities and districts were gathered from former research.

Effects on preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis and associated adverse pregnant outcomes: a longitudinal study from 2001 to 2015 in Shanghai, China.

Background: Maternal syphilis is a health threat to both the pregnant women and the children. This study aimed to delineate the longitudinal trend of maternal syphilis and burden of associated adverse pregnant outcomes (APOs) in Shanghai from 2001 to 2015; and to evaluate the effects of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of syphilis in Shanghai with regard to service coverage and APOs averted.

Methods: PMTCT program of syphilis has been implemented since 2001.