The treatment coverage and cure of 84.6% of the estimated 17,137 infected persons aged 12-80 years across 73 villages. >200,000 rural villagers Large community-based educate, test and treat programme Programme to eliminate HCV infection in Egypt rural communities Highlights An Educate, test and treat model programme is feasible and effective for HCV elimination in rural communities. Over 200,000 villagers were screened for HCV and there were high levels of linkage across all steps in the care cascade. A total of 14,495 infected patients received treatment.