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Around 2.5 million people with hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa already have cirrhosis and need immediate antiviral treatment, a systematic review of published studies reports this month in the journal Liver International. Approximately ...

Around 1.1 million deaths were caused by viral hepatitis worldwide in 2019 and deaths due to hepatitis C are still rising despite the availability of direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to analyses of ...

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 ...

Half of people who inject drugs in the Middle East and north Africa have been infected with hepatitis C, and researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar estimate that around 221,000 people who ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a growing cause of liver cancer and death in some regions of the world, an analysis of global reporting on liver disease shows. The findings ...