All the news Showing 10 of 158 articles from: Transmission, epidemiology and preventionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Prioritise harm reduction services to prevent hepatitis C re-infection, Scottish study finds Keith Alcorn / 24 January 2022 Limiting re-infection with hepatitis C in people who use drugs is most likely to be achieved by intensifying provision of sterile injecting equipment for people using needle and syringe programmes and increasing ... One in five new cases of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs due to unstable housing, modelling shows Keith Alcorn / 11 January 2022 Unstable housing may be responsible for up to one in five new infections with HIV or hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom and the United States, a ... People with diabetes or high alcohol consumption at higher risk of late hepatitis C diagnosis Keith Alcorn / 24 September 2021 People with diabetes and those with hazardous alcohol intake were significantly more likely to remain undiagnosed with hepatitis C and present with advanced fibrosis, a large number of people diagnosed with hepatitis ... Testing COVID-19 patients for viral hepatitis does not detect numerous undiagnosed cases Keith Alcorn / 19 September 2021 Screening people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 for hepatitis C or hepatitis B does not lead to detection of a large number of undiagnosed infections and is likely to be of limited ... Short stay in prison increases the risk of hepatitis C for people who use drugs Keith Alcorn / 03 September 2021 People who use drugs were over 50% more likely to acquire hepatitis C between 2004 and 2019 if they spent even a brief period in prison, a prospective study carried out in ... Reflex testing successfully uncovers hidden hepatitis C cases in Scotland Keith Alcorn / 29 June 2021 Automatic viral hepatitis testing of blood samples from patients with abnormal liver function has the potential to identify “hard to reach” people with hepatitis B or C who have no known risk ... High prevalence of viral hepatitis among healthcare workers in Africa Keith Alcorn / 21 June 2021 Almost 7% of healthcare workers in Africa have hepatitis B and 5% have hepatitis C, according to a systematic review of published studies. Greater efforts to vaccinate against hepatitis B and improve ... COVID-19 reduced US hepatitis C testing, diagnosis and treatment Keith Alcorn / 21 May 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic severely reduced hepatitis C testing, diagnosis and treatment in the United States during 2020, a study by Quest Diagnostics and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Hepatitis C testing in gay and bisexual men with HIV below target, US study finds Keith Alcorn / 27 April 2021 Testing for hepatitis C among gay and bisexual men with HIV who are at higher risk of acquiring hepatitis C is falling short of recommendations, a study of a large US cohort ... Community-wide hepatitis C elimination campaign in Seattle increases number treated tenfold Keith Alcorn / 20 April 2021 A community-wide hepatitis C elimination campaign in Seattle, United States, tripled the number of people screened for hepatitis C and increased the number treated tenfold between 2014 and 2018, doctors and public health ... ← Prev12345...16Next → 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