Duah, EvansMathebula, Evans MantiriMashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa2024-05-152024-05-152023-02-12Duah, E.; Mathebula, E.M.; Mashamba-Thompson, T. Quality Assurance for Hepatitis C Virus Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 684. https://DOI.org/10.3390/diagnostics13040684.2075-4418 (online)10.3390/diagnostics13040684http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96001As part of a multinational study to evaluate the Bioline Hepatitis C virus (HCV) point-of- care (POC) testing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this narrative review summarises regulatory standards and quality indicators for validating and approving HCV clinical diagnostics. In addition, this review also provides a summary of their diagnostic evaluations using the REASSURED criteria as the benchmark and its implications on the WHO HCV elimination goals 2030.en© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.EvaluationRegulatory standardsHepatitis C virus (HCV)Point-of-care (POC)Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)REASSURED criteriaSDG-03: Good health and well-beingArticle