All the news

A simplified, same-day treatment model led to a higher cure rate compared with usual care for young people who inject drugs, according to research presented last week at the virtual IDWeek meeting. ...

People who use drugs were over 50% more likely to acquire hepatitis C between 2004 and 2019 if they spent even a brief period in prison, a prospective study carried out in ...

Community-based testing and treatment for HIV and hepatitis C achieved high hepatitis C cure rates in Thailand, results from the Thai C-FREE study show. Tanyapom Wansom presented results from the C-FREE cohort study of ...

Australia’s model of universal access to direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C has been especially successful in treating recent drug users, the group most critical to reach for the elimination of the virus, ...

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 ...

Hepatitis C programmes and health services should review whether they are using best practices in diagnosis, treatment and care of people with hepatitis C, and update service models to improve hepatitis C elimination ...

People who use drugs achieved high rates of hepatitis C cure on direct-acting antiviral treatment despite ongoing drug and alcohol use, demonstrating that active drug use should not be a barrier to ...