All the news Showing 10 of 75 articles from: Treatment for people who use drugsGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources 7% of patients coinfected with HCV and HIV fail DAA therapy Healio / 14 March 2019 Dramatic rise in U.S. opioid deaths as epidemic spreads to eastern states Medical Xpress / 13 March 2019 HCV reinfection in people who inject drugs a sign of a successful treatment programme, say researchers Keith Alcorn / 11 March 2019 High rates of reinfection in people who inject drugs are a sign that access to treatment is improving, not a sign of failure, and should prompt retreatment, not stigmatisation, Australian hepatitis researcher ... Access to hepatitis C care boosted for people who inject drugs by specialist nurses Keith Alcorn / 19 February 2019 People attending specialist addiction centres in England where a facilitator enabled access to hepatitis C care services were ten times more likely to be referred to hepatology services and to start treatment ... Conditional cash transfers may improve HCV screening and treatment in drug users Keith Alcorn / 22 January 2019 Conditional cash transfers – giving money to encourage use of services – may be needed to reach drug users for hepatitis C testing and treatment if they are either unaware of hepatitis ... Barriers to HCV treatment access from the drug user's point of view: stigma, complex lives and damaged veins Keith Alcorn / 16 January 2019 Despite access to hepatitis C treatment, many people who inject drugs still perceive numerous barriers to starting treatment, including the attitudes of healthcare workers, the difficulty of juggling treatment with competing demands, a ... Hepatitis C rates in US track the opioid epidemic Liz Highleyman / 14 December 2018 Nearly 2.4 million people in the United States are living with active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ... Young Drug Users Encounter Barriers to Hepatitis C Treatment MD Magazine / 26 November 2018 Hepatitis C sufferers to be offered community-based programmes Irish Times / 23 November 2018 People who inject drugs have a high hepatitis C cure rate despite imperfect adherence Liz Highleyman / 15 November 2018 Most people who inject drugs completed treatment with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa) and achieved sustained virological response (SVR) in a real-world setting, even if they had interruptions in therapy, according to a presentation at the AASLD ... ← First12345...8Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E NAFLD Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Noticeboard Email bulletins News feeds