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Updated CDC Guidance for Healthcare Personnel With Potential Exposure to HCV

Infectious Disease Advisor / 24 August 2020
Condomless sex sufficient to pass on hepatitis C between men

Keith Alcorn / 24 August 2020

Hepatitis C transmission during anal sex can take place without bleeding, trauma or sharing of injecting equipment and exposure to semen is likely to be enough for the virus to ...
67 homeless people in Merseyside now on HIV and Hepatitis C treatment plans

ITV News / 18 August 2020
A hard journey to a future free of hepatitis in Africa

The Conversation / 04 August 2020
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 hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the blood should receive preventive antiviral therapy with tenofovir from the 28th week ...
Closing the gap: finding undiagnosed hepatitis C infections after blood transfusions

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) / 27 July 2020
World Hepatitis Day 2020

World Health Organization / 21 July 2020
Hepatitis claims around 325 lives daily in Pakistan

Express Tribune / 21 July 2020
Bacterial infection of the heart on the rise among people with hepatitis C in United States

Keith Alcorn / 23 June 2020

Diagnoses of infective endocarditis, a life-threatening bacterial infection of the heart valves, have become more common over the past ten years among people with hepatitis C and people with opioid use disorder ...
Hepatitis C in England: deaths decline but new infections steady since 2011

Keith Alcorn / 09 June 2020

The number of people with chronic hepatitis C infection in England has fallen by 30% since 2016 due to direct-acting antiviral treatment, says Public Health England in a new report on the ...