Your reference for hepatitis C in Quebec
- AHC: Action hépatites Canada
- RNA: Ribonucleic acid
- ARV: Antiretrovirus
- PHAC: Public Health Agency of Canada
- Viral load: Amount of virus in an infected person’s blood.
- DRSP: Regional public health department (Direction régionale de santé publique)
- Portal tract: A complex in the liver that includes a bile duct, a branch of the hepatic artery, and lymphatic vessels or capillaries.
- CAF: HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund
- Iatrogenic: an illness caused by a medical procedure
- Incidence: Number of new cases of a disease within a population over a given time period
- GBMSM: Gay and bisexual men who have sexual relations with other men
- INSPQ: Public Health Expertise and Reference (Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec)
- STBBIs: Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections
- Reportable diseases: Diseases that must be reported to public health officials
- MASH (formerly NASH): Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, formerly Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- EHM: Extraepatic Manifestations of the hepatitis C virus
- MSSS: Ministry of Health and Social Services (Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux)
- Window period: Duration between the moment of viral transmission and the moment of screening during the test provides a reliable positive or negative result
- PrEP: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
- Prevalence: Number of cases of a disease within a population at a given time, encompassing new cases as well as on-going ones
- PWUD: People who use drugs
- PWID: People who inject drugs
- SVR: Sustained virological response
- Septa: Name given to a thin partition separating the nerve elements.
- Serodiscordant Couple or relationship in which one person is living with HIV or an STBBI and the other is not
- Serosorting Practice consisting of choosing one’s sexual partner based on their serological status, particularly concerning HIV
- OAT: Opioid Agonist Therapy
- HAV: Hepatitis A Virus
- HBV: Hepatitis B Virus
- HVC: Hepatitis C Virus
- HVD: Hepatitis D Virus
- HVE: Hepatitis E Virus
- HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus