All the news Showing 9 of 39 articles from: Sexual transmissionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Studies investigate presence of hepatitis C virus among gay and bisexual men CATIE / 24 April 2014 High response rates with telaprevir triple therapy for HIV-positive men with acute hepatitis C Liz Highleyman / 05 November 2013 Adding telaprevir (Incivo or Incivek) to pegylated interferon and ribavirin shortens the duration of treatment and improves sustained response rates for HIV-positive men with acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to ... The HIV and HepC mix scotfreehiv (blog) / 30 July 2013 Hepatitis C epidemic in US gay men is decades old Michael Carter / 10 April 2013 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmissions have been occurring in gay men since at least the early years of the HIV epidemic, investigators from the US report in the online edition of Clinical ... Sexual transmission of hepatitis C very rare in monogamous heterosexual couples Michael Carter / 08 April 2013 Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among monogamous heterosexual couples is extremely rare, investigators from the United States report in Hepatology. The maximum incidence of sexual transmission was just 0.07% per year, equivalent ... More evidence of sexual transmission of hepatitis C among HIV-positive gay men in the US Michael Carter / 14 February 2013 Investigators in the US have found a high incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-positive gay men. Annual incidence was 1.6% – the highest ever seen in research involving HIV-positive gay ... HIV11: Sexually transmitted HCV rising among HIV+ gay men in Europe, but more are getting treated HIVandhepatitis.com / 17 December 2012 Massive increase of hepatitis C incidence in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland Michael Carter / 30 August 2012 Incidence of hepatitis C virus infections has increased eighteen fold in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland since 1998, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Half of all infections in ... High rate of HCV reinfection after treatment of acute infection in Amsterdam gay men Keith Alcorn / 10 March 2011 Just over one-quarter of gay men with HIV successfully treated for acute hepatitis C infection became reinfected with hepatitis C within two years, almost all with a different genotype, Amsterdam doctors reported last ... ← Prev1234Next → 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