"I want to feel young again": experiences and perspectives of young people who inject drugs living with hepatitis C in Vancouver, Canada.

Findings from this study underscore the need for HCV-related knowledge-building efforts among young PWID and clinicians. Also needed are structural policy interventions to facilitate access to DAAs, including anti-stigma efforts, access to safe housing, and the scale-up of low-barrier youth-specific services and decentralized HCV care.