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• New Treatment for people who use drugs

  Meta-analysis shows hepatitis C treatment is highly effective for drug users

  Keith Alcorn / 18 hours ago

  Direct-acting antiviral treatment is highly effective at curing hepatitis C in people who inject drugs and in people receiving opioid substitution therapy (OST), a systematic review and meta-analysis of 38 studies published ...

• New

  Hepatitis C elimination in people who inject drugs needs a health system strategy, says expert review

  Keith Alcorn / 20 hours ago

  Achieving the elimination of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs will require a comprehensive health system-wide strategy that addresses stigma, barriers to care, financing, the involvement of people who inject drugs and ...

• Screening policy

  All pregnant women in the United States should be screened for hepatitis C, say specialists

  Keith Alcorn / 20 September 2018

  Hepatitis C specialists from several of the largest medical schools in the United States say that changes in the epidemiology of hepatitis C over the past decade make it essential to switch ...

• Screening and testing policy

  Little progress towards 'test all baby boomers for hepatitis C' since 2013, US study shows

  Keith Alcorn / 17 September 2018

  The proportion of baby boomers who have been tested for hepatitis C in the United States since 2013 has increased only marginally despite a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

• Life after the cure

  Psychological relief is the most important benefit of a hepatitis C cure for patients

  Roger Pebody / 13 September 2018

  When asked to describe what their hepatitis C cure meant to them, Australians who had recently completed treatment emphasised an improved sense of psychological wellbeing, according to a qualitative study recently published in ...