infohep news

• Harm reduction interventions and policy

  Increase in clean needle and syringe provision essential for hepatitis C elimination

  Keith Alcorn / 12 February 2020

  Elimination of hepatitis C will not be achievable without substantial improvements in provision of sterile injecting equipment, Dr Magdalena Harris of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told a conference on hepatitis ...

• HBV treatment for people with HIV

  Hepatitis B treatment suboptimal in people with HIV in Africa

  Keith Alcorn / 04 February 2020

  Testing for chronic hepatitis B infection was very low in people living with HIV in Cameroon, a country with a high burden of hepatitis B, and suppression of hepatitis B virus was ...

• Screening and testing policy

  London: hepatitis C elimination depends on testing scale-up

  Keith Alcorn / 28 January 2020

  London needs to step up the rate of testing for hepatitis C if it is to achieve elimination of hepatitis C, Professor Graham Foster of Queen Mary University London told the London ...

• Harm reduction interventions and policy

  Peer-led outreach improves uptake of hepatitis C care among homeless and people who use drugs

  Keith Alcorn / 24 January 2020

  Intensive peer support during engagement with hepatitis C care was associated with a high level of engagement in care among vulnerable people including recently homeless people and people who inject drugs in London, ...

• Models of care

  HepCheck screening programme links 80% to hepatitis C care in 4 European countries

  Keith Alcorn / 21 January 2020

  Hepatitis C screening programmes targeting the homeless, people who inject drugs and prisoners achieved linkage to specialist care in over 80% of people diagnosed with hepatitis C, a four-country European study found. The study ...