All the news Showing 10 of 46 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Less than half of children born to mothers with hepatitis C tested for HCV, US study finds Keith Alcorn / 11 September 2018 Less than half of the children born to mothers with opioid dependency and hepatitis C were tested for hepatitis C between 2006 and 2015 in a large clinic providing antenatal care for ... More work and lower drug prices are needed to eliminate hepatitis C worldwide Liz Highleyman / 27 November 2017 Eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a global public health concern is feasible, but to do this more people need to be tested and treated and prices of direct-acting antivirals ... UK elimination of hepatitis C in jeopardy unless more patients found Keith Alcorn / 01 November 2017 Just one in three people with hepatitis C in the United Kingdom has been diagnosed according to the latest estimates released at this year’s World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo, ... Hepatitis C testing linked to reduced opioid use among people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 25 October 2017 Getting tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV) was associated with reduced drug use, especially among those who tested positive, but even people who tested negative saw some reduction, according to study results presented ... Six-question risk score can identify HIV-positive gay men needing testing for acute hepatitis C Roger Pebody / 13 June 2017 Six questions can identify HIV-positive gay men who are at elevated risk of having acute (recent) hepatitis C infection and who would benefit from further testing, according to a paper ... Two-thirds of people with HIV/HCV co-infection in Southeast Asia in need of HCV therapy Michael Carter / 15 March 2017 Almost two-thirds of people with HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection in Asia are in need of HCV therapy with a fifth of people having cirrhosis, investigators report in the Journal of Viral ... High hepatitis C prevalence seen in Amsterdam PrEP study participants Gus Cairns / 06 February 2017 Researchers from the Dutch pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demonstration study, AmPrEP, have found an unexpectedly high rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in participants tested for it at baseline.The HCV ... Even low levels of alcohol consumption increase the risk of liver cancer for people with HCV infection with compensated cirrhosis Michael Carter / 05 September 2016 Low-to-moderate alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of liver cancer for people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with compensated cirrhosis, investigators from Belgium report in the Journal of Hepatology. Five-year incidence ... Hepatitis C antigen testing could eliminate need for two-step HCV testing, reduce cost of access Keith Alcorn / 21 June 2016 Testing for hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen could eventually replace the current two-step procedure for diagnosing chronic hepatitis C infection in lower- and middle-income countries, speeding up access to treatment and improving ... Age- and risk-based HCV screening will leave significant proportion of infections undiagnosed Michael Carter / 13 March 2016 Screening emergency department patients for hepatitis C virus (HCV) based on birth cohort and risk profile might mean that a quarter of undiagnosed infections would remain undetected, according to United States research published ... ← 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