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• Hepatitis C elimination

  Is hepatitis elimination feasible by 2030?

  Anon / 06 August 2020

  Major gaps in hepatitis elimination efforts throughout the world threaten achievement of the World Health Organization targets for achieving substantial reductions in new infections and deaths due to viral hepatitis by 2030, experts ...

• Hepatitis C elimination

  COVID-19 slows hepatitis elimination

  Keith Alcorn / 04 August 2020

  Hepatitis elimination efforts are being severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in many settings, results of a 32-country survey by the World Hepatitis Alliance show. The survey of civil society hepatitis organisations and frontline ...

• Mother to child

  New WHO guidance on preventing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B

  Keith Alcorn / 28 July 2020

  Pregnant women who test positive for hepatitis B infection and have a high level of HBV in the blood should receive preventive antiviral therapy with tenofovir from the 28th week of pregnancy until ...

• Hepatitis C

  Hepatitis C doubles the risk of head and neck cancers

  Keith Alcorn / 21 July 2020

  Hepatitis C infection doubles the risk of developing cancers of the oral cavity, upper throat and larynx, a meta-analysis of eight studies has shown and the study authors say that people with ...

• Coronavirus

  How often does COVID-19 cause liver disorders?

  Keith Alcorn / 21 July 2020

  Increases in liver enzymes are common in people with COVID-19 and occur more frequently in people with severe COVID-19, a meta-analysis of studies published in Hepatology International shows. Most liver enzyme elevations were ...