All the news Showing 10 of 107 articles from: Transmission and preventionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources London data show that hepatitis C is passed on during anal sex without a condom Keith Alcorn / 11 April 2017 Around one in five HIV-positive gay men who recently acquired hepatitis C report anal sex without a condom as the only behaviour that could explain their infection. At the same ... Study finds higher than expected hepatitis C prevalence among HIV-negative gay men in Amsterdam PrEP programme Liz Highleyman / 11 April 2017 An unexpectedly high number of HIV-negative gay and bisexual men taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Amsterdam were found to have hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, suggesting HCV is being transmitted sexually between men ... New hepatitis C infections among HIV-positive gay men drop by half after direct-acting antiviral roll-out in Netherlands Liz Highleyman / 17 February 2017 A little more than a year after the Netherlands instituted a policy allowing unrestricted access to direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of hepatitis C, researchers have already seen a dramatic decline in acute ... Hepatitis C virus infection is rising among gay and bisexual men in San Diego Liz Highleyman / 30 November 2016 The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in San Diego has increased over the past 15 years, especially among men who do not ... Hepatitis C infection and reinfection among men who have sex with men Liz Highleyman / 29 September 2016 Public health officials in Michigan have identified a cluster of more than 20 cases of apparently sexually transmitted hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men, according to a report ... Risk of reinfection is a concern after successful hepatitis C treatment Liz Highleyman / 28 September 2016 People on opiate agonist substitution therapy can be successfully treated with grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) – achieving cure rates similar to those of the population as a whole – but some people are reinfected ... HCV treatment is effective and may work as prevention for people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 19 September 2016 Hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs is as safe and effective as it is for non-drug-users – with cure rates exceeding 90% – and treating enough people in this population could ... Hepatitis C vaccine development shows progress but scientific barriers remain Liz Highleyman / 12 September 2016 An effective vaccine may be necessary to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) but development has been hampered by several challenges including the variability of the virus and incomplete natural immunity, according to presentations ... Vaccination could have important role in control of UK HCV epidemic among people who inject drugs Michael Carter / 29 June 2016 A vaccine, even with low efficacy, could lead to meaningful reductions in the incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs (PWID), a modelling study published in PLOS ... High incidence of HCV reinfection among HIV-positive MSM in Western Europe Michael Carter / 19 April 2016 There is a very high incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) reinfection among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in western Europe, according to research presented to the International Liver Congress ... ← Prev1...34567...11Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms HCV and coinfections Living with HCV Treatment issues Side effects Therapies Liver transplants 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