All the news Showing 10 of 158 articles from: Transmission, epidemiology and preventionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources 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 ... 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 ... Self-sampling for hepatitis C improves diagnosis rate in the Netherlands Keith Alcorn / 01 June 2022 Online risk assessment for hepatitis C and home-based sampling for HCV-RNA testing proved acceptable, easy to use and resulted in a high rate of diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C infections among gay ... Ukraine: viral hepatitis and harm reduction services for refugees Keith Alcorn / 10 May 2022 The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have issued a joint statement on viral hepatitis care ... UK emergency department screening for viral hepatitis feasible and acceptable Keith Alcorn / 04 May 2022 Emergency department opt-out screening for viral hepatitis and linkage to care is feasible and resulted in high uptake of testing, researchers from a major London hospital report in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis. But ... UK report urges re-think on hepatitis C reinfection Keith Alcorn / 11 April 2022 Progress towards the elimination of hepatitis C is being undermined by a lack of attention to the harm reduction needs of people cured of hepatitis C in the United Kingdom, as ... Hepatitis C prevalence down by 40% since 2015 in England Keith Alcorn / 11 March 2022 The prevalence of hepatitis C in England fell by almost 40% between 2015 and 2020 and deaths due to the virus fell by 35% in the same period, the UK Health Security Agency ... Universal hepatitis C screening in pregnancy improves case detection Keith Alcorn / 23 February 2022 Implementing universal testing for hepatitis C during pregnancy improved case detection 7.5-fold compared to the previous regime of risk-based screening, a research group from the University of Pittsburgh reported last week at the ... Immunoglobulin-free strategy highly effective for prevention of mother-to-child hepatitis B transmission in Cambodia Keith Alcorn / 22 February 2022 A hepatitis B immunuglobulin-free strategy for prevention of mother-to-child hepatitis B transmission is feasible and highly effective in a resource-limited setting if tenofovir is given for at least four weeks prior to delivery, ... 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 ... ← First12345...16Next → 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 Transfusion and medical procedures Injecting drug use Mother to child Sexual transmission Non-medical blood transfer HBV vaccination Epidemiology Screening and testing policy Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive