All the news Showing 10 of 46 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources 12 good practices that should be part of the hepatitis C standard of care Keith Alcorn / 25 March 2021 Hepatitis C programmes and health services should review whether they are using best practices in diagnosis, treatment and care of people with hepatitis C, and update service models to improve hepatitis C elimination ... London sets out route map for hepatitis C elimination Keith Alcorn / 13 March 2020 Healthcare professionals, local government and community organisations have launched a London route map for hepatitis C elimination, setting out five 'opportunity' areas for an intensified focus on reaching undiagnosed people and vulnerable populations ... 90% of people who inject drugs in United States missed opportunities for HIV or hepatitis C tests Keith Alcorn / 27 February 2020 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. ... London: hepatitis C elimination depends on testing scale-up Keith Alcorn / 28 January 2020 London needs to step up the rate of testing for hepatitis C if it is to achieve elimination of hepatitis C, Professor Graham Foster of Queen Mary University London told the London ... New US guidelines recommend screening of all adults for hepatitis C Keith Alcorn / 12 December 2019 All adults in the United States should be screened for hepatitis C by healthcare providers as part of routine medical care, updated guidelines from the American Association for the Study of Liver ... People who use drugs would prefer to get hepatitis C treatment at a community pharmacy Keith Alcorn / 04 October 2019 Seventy-eight per cent of people using needle and syringe programmes in community pharmacies in London who opted to test for hepatitis C would prefer to receive their hepatitis C treatment from the ... Is opt-out testing for HCV improving testing rates in UK prisons? Keith Alcorn / 04 April 2019 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 ... Tackling HIV and hepatitis C in Europe: towards minimum standards Gus Cairns / 11 February 2019 Despite the huge disparities in care that were highlighted, last week's Standard of Care for HIV and Coinfections in Europe meeting in Bucharest featured discussions that could form the basis of a European-wide ... Conditional cash transfers may improve HCV screening and treatment in drug users Keith Alcorn / 22 January 2019 Conditional cash transfers – giving money to encourage use of services – may be needed to reach drug users for hepatitis C testing and treatment if they are either unaware of hepatitis ... Little progress towards 'test all baby boomers for hepatitis C' since 2013, US study shows Keith Alcorn / 17 September 2018 The proportion of baby boomers who have been tested for hepatitis C in the United States since 2013 has increased only marginally despite a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... ← Prev12345Next → 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