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A peer-led recruitment strategy proved highly successful in engaging people who use drugs in testing and treatment for hepatitis C in the French city of Montpellier, researchers from the University of Montpellier report ...

Greater efforts by healthcare providers to build trusting relationships with people with HIV and hepatitis C, together with a greater focus on overcoming concerns about treatment side effects, are likely to be needed ...

Two combinations proved highly effective in curing hepatitis C in people who had experienced the failure of a previous combination containing an NS5A inhibitor, studies in Europe and New Zealand show. The findings, ...

A seven-day course of direct-acting antiviral treatment started hours before an organ transplant prevented hepatitis C infection in everyone who received a transplant from a donor with hepatitis C, researchers from the Mayo ...

People who have been cured of hepatitis C remain at higher risk of dying from liver-related causes than the general population, but their risk of cardiovascular events goes down after being cured, ...

People with diabetes or high alcohol intake after hepatitis C cure are less likely to experience reductions in liver fibrosis after hepatitis C cure and remained at higher risk of severe liver ...

Hepatitis C reinfection rates were high in Australian prisoners who took part in a study of hepatitis C treatment in prisons, researchers from the University of New South Wales report in the ...

Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir is safe and effective for the treatment of hepatitis C genotype 4 variants that have naturally occurring resistance to some direct-acting antivirals in the NS5A inhibitor class, a study in Rwanda has ...

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 care located within a needle and syringe programme in New York achieved a three times higher cure rate than referral to a patient navigator and linkage to medical care at ...