All the news Showing 9 of 9 articles from: SwitzerlandGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Hepatitis C elimination Test-and-treat leads to sustained fall in hepatitis C in Swiss gay men with HIV Keith Alcorn / 18 April 2022 Intensive screening for hepatitis C, treatment and risk reduction counselling have led to sustained declines in hepatitis C prevalence and new cases of hepatitis C among gay and bisexual men living with ... Transmission, epidemiology and prevention New cases of hepatitis C declining in people with HIV as access to treatment broadens Keith Alcorn / 21 February 2022 The availability of direct-acting antivirals has led to a 50% reduction in new cases of hepatitis among people with HIV in some high-income settings, a six-country study presented this week ... Sexual transmission What happens after curing hepatitis C? Avoiding, minimising or accepting the risks of re-infection Krishen Samuel / 14 June 2021 Swiss men living with HIV approach the risk of re-infection with hepatitis C after cure in different ways, based on recent qualitative research by Dr Patrizia Künzler-Heule and colleagues from the Universities of ... Treatment for people who use drugs Swiss opioid substitution therapy programme reports strong progress towards hepatitis C elimination Keith Alcorn / 14 April 2021 Direct-acting antiviral treatment cured almost everyone treated for hepatitis C in a large cohort of people receiving opioid substitution therapy, Swiss researchers report in the Swiss Medical Weekly. The study also observed a ... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Smoking reduces survival after liver cancer diagnosis for people with viral hepatitis Keith Alcorn / 18 January 2018 People with viral hepatitis who smoked were three times more likely to die after being diagnosed with liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC), according to a study of Swiss patients published ... Treatment for people living with HIV and HCV Hepatitis C test-and-treat programme reduces HCV by two-thirds among men who have sex with men in Swiss HIV Cohort Keith Alcorn / 31 October 2017 A systematic policy of test-and-treat cured 99% of men who have sex with men with hepatitis C in the Swiss HIV Cohort in an 8-month period and reduced the prevalence of hepatitis ... Epidemiology Massive increase of hepatitis C incidence in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland Michael Carter / 30 August 2012 Incidence of hepatitis C virus infections has increased eighteen fold in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland since 1998, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Half of all infections in ... Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Hepatitis C infection now twice as common in HIV+ gay men as injecting drug users, Swiss study finds Gus Cairns / 06 April 2012 Twice as many HIV-positive gay men are now being infected with hepatitis C as HIV-positive injecting drug users, a Swiss study presented to the 19th Retrovirus Conference has found.New hepatitis ... Hepatitis E Unexplained liver enzyme increases in patients with HIV could be due to hepatitis E virus: screening recommended Michael Carter / 05 August 2011 Infection with hepatitis E virus should be considered as a possible cause of unexplained elevations in liver enzymes in HIV-positive patients, Swiss investigators suggest in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Approximately 3% of their patients with ... ← First1Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive