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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 ...

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 ...

Screening people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 for hepatitis C or hepatitis B does not lead to detection of a large number of undiagnosed infections and is likely to be of limited ...

Outreach to homeless people in England housed in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic led to over 1200 to be tested for hepatitis C, one in ten to test positive for active ...

Hepatitis C treatment with no monitoring visits during treatment is safe and leads to a high cure rate, an international study reported on Monday at the online AASLD Liver Meeting. The study was ...

Around 90% of people who inject drugs in the United States missed opportunities for HIV or hepatitis C virus testing between 2010 and 2017, a review of more than 840,000 healthcare visits shows. ...

Point-of-care testing to diagnose hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has the potential to eliminate the need for multiple appointments to confirm chronic infection. An oral antibody test can provide a result in ...

People who had a simplified monitoring schedule of hepatitis C viral load tests at the beginning of treatment and 12 weeks after completing treatment were just as likely to be cured as ...

Testing rates for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in prisons in the United Kingdom remain far below the national minimum target of 50% and without radical change, prison testing rates will pose a ...

Only about a third of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with opioid use disorder in the United States are screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV, even though injection drug use is ...