All the news Showing 10 of 72 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Inexpensive interventions can boost engagement with key stages of viral hepatitis care continuum Michael Carter / 14 October 2016 Several cheap interventions can significantly boost engagement with the continuum of care for viral hepatitis, a systematic literature review and a series of meta-analyses published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases show. Programmes led by ... 'Step-change in strategy' needed to eliminate HBV as a global health threat Michael Carter / 11 October 2016 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) could be eliminated as a global health threat with a scale-up of vaccination coverage, enhanced efforts to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission and expansion of testing and treatment, according to ... Improvements in HIV treatment and care have had no impact on rates of endstage liver disease among HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis Michael Carter / 01 September 2016 Incidence of endstage liver disease (ESLD) among HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis changed little between 1996 and 2010, despite major improvements in HIV treatment and care, investigators from Canada and the United States ... Statins reduce risk of progression to cirrhosis in people with HIV/HCV co-infection Michael Carter / 30 August 2016 Treatment with statins decreases the risk of progression to liver cirrhosis in people with HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection, investigators from the United States report in AIDS. The protective effect of statins was ... Many people in the US with chronic hepatitis B not being properly monitored Michael Carter / 26 August 2016 Many people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) virus infection have infrequent medical monitoring, according to US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Analysis of the records of over 2000 ... Ongoing hepatitis B virus replication associated with higher mortality for people with HIV Liz Highleyman / 11 August 2016 People with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection have more than double the risk of death if they have ongoing high-level HBV replication, indicating a need for prompt treatment, according to an ... Antiviral therapies give Hepatitis C cirrhosis patients similar life expectancy as general population Manual Items / 05 May 2016 Study demonstrates benefits of existing treatment for hepatitis D patients EASL press release / 15 April 2016 HIV/HBV co-infection linked to worse immune recovery and death, but tenofovir improves outcomes Liz Highleyman / 12 April 2016 HIV-positive people with hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection had impaired CD4 cell recovery after starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) and a higher risk of death than those without hepatitis B, but use of ... Vitamin D insufficiency evident in patients with untreated chronic HBV Healio / 05 January 2016 ← Prev1...23456...8Next → 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 Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive