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 Swiss opioid substitution therapy programme reports strong progress towards hepatitis C elimination Keith Alcorn / 14 April 2021 Direct-acting antiviral treatment cured almost everyone treated for hepatitis C in a large cohort of people receiving opioid substitution therapy, Swiss researchers report in the Swiss Medical Weekly. The study also observed a ... 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 ... Hepatitis C elimination in France feasible if new infections in gay and bisexual men decline Keith Alcorn / 27 January 2021 Hepatitis C is becoming more concentrated in gay and bisexual men with HIV in France as direct-acting antiviral treatment cures the infection in other people with HIV while hepatitis C transmission between ... 2.5 million people in Africa need urgent hepatitis B treatment Keith Alcorn / 09 December 2020 Around 2.5 million people with hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa already have cirrhosis and need immediate antiviral treatment, a systematic review of published studies reports this month in the journal Liver International. Approximately ... Few countries will meet 2020 target for reducing viral hepatitis deaths Keith Alcorn / 24 November 2020 Around 1.1 million deaths were caused by viral hepatitis worldwide in 2019 and deaths due to hepatitis C are still rising despite the availability of direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to analyses of ... Condomless sex sufficient to pass on hepatitis C between men Keith Alcorn / 24 August 2020 Hepatitis C transmission during anal sex can take place without bleeding, trauma or sharing of injecting equipment and exposure to semen is likely to be enough for the virus to ... New WHO guidance on preventing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B Keith Alcorn / 28 July 2020 Pregnant women who test positive for hepatitis B infection and have a high level of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the blood should receive preventive antiviral therapy with tenofovir from the 28th week ... Bacterial infection of the heart on the rise among people with hepatitis C in United States Keith Alcorn / 23 June 2020 Diagnoses of infective endocarditis, a life-threatening bacterial infection of the heart valves, have become more common over the past ten years among people with hepatitis C and people with opioid use disorder ... Hepatitis C in England: deaths decline but new infections steady since 2011 Keith Alcorn / 09 June 2020 The number of people with chronic hepatitis C infection in England has fallen by 30% since 2016 due to direct-acting antiviral treatment, says Public Health England in a new report on the ... Hepatitis C treatment in adolescents and young people late but successful, Spanish study shows Keith Alcorn / 05 May 2020 Treatment for hepatitis C was highly effective in clearing the virus in young people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C through vertical infection, despite advanced fibrosis in one-third, Spanish researchers report in the ... ← 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