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• Spontaneous hepatitis C clearance rare in gay and bisexual men with HIV

  Keith Alcorn / 23 September 2022

  Fewer than one in eight gay or bisexual men with HIV spontaneously cleared a recent infection with hepatitis C, a large European study of recent hepatitis C infections has found. The study ...

• Fibrosis improvement may not continue more than a year after hepatitis C cure in people with HIV

  Keith Alcorn / 20 September 2022

  After being cured of hepatitis C, markers of liver fibrosis do not continue to decline one year beyond cure, a study of women living with HIV and hepatitis C in the United ...

• Testing for hepatitis C at community pharmacies improves uptake of testing and treatment

  Keith Alcorn / 18 August 2022

  Reaching people who receive methadone opioid agonist therapy with the offer of an on-site hepatitis C test through their dispensing pharmacy greatly improved the uptake of hepatitis C testing and treatment when ...

• Broader hepatitis C treatment not leading to more reinfections in people with HIV

  Keith Alcorn / 09 August 2022

  Broader access to direct-acting antivirals has been accompanied by a decline or stabilisation in the rate of hepatitis C reinfection in people with HIV and there is no evidence that reinfection is undermining ...

• Widespread PrEP use is not leading to more hepatitis C transmission among gay and bisexual men

  Keith Alcorn / 03 August 2022

  The incidence of hepatitis C infection is now four times lower in gay and bisexual PrEP users than it was before direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of hepatitis C became ...