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 Hepatitis C screening among PrEP users could eliminate hepatitis C infections in gay men in UK Keith Alcorn / 13 January 2020 Increasing the frequency of hepatitis C screening in gay and bisexual men taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom has the potential to reduce new hepatitis C infections in ... 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 ... Global burden of deaths and liver cancer due to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease growing Keith Alcorn / 11 December 2019 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a growing cause of liver cancer and death in some regions of the world, an analysis of global reporting on liver disease shows. The findings ... Hepatitis C incidence is low among Canadian men on PrEP Liz Highleyman / 18 November 2019 New cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among Canadian gay and bisexual men taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) were uncommon compared with rates previously reported in Europe, according to research ... 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 ... 13% of HIV-positive Europeans who are cured of hepatitis C are reinfected Liz Highleyman / 05 August 2019 More than one in ten HIV-positive people in the large EuroSIDA cohort who were cured of hepatitis C were reinfected within two years, according to a report last month at ... Prescribers of opioid substitutes lack funding, facilities and guidelines to treat hepatitis C, global survey reveals Keith Alcorn / 24 June 2019 Only 30% of physicians who prescribe opioid substitution therapy to people who inject drugs have also prescribed direct-acting antivirals, despite being ideally placed to offer testing and treatment for hepatitis C, an international ... Hepatitis C more stigmatising than HIV: gay men’s attitudes towards hepatitis C reinfection Anon / 13 June 2019 Qualitative research with HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in Australia who had been cured of hepatitis C infection revealed that having hepatitis C was more stigmatising than HIV infection. While being a member ... World Health Organization calls for greater focus on people who inject drugs in HCV treatment scale-up plans Keith Alcorn / 30 April 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for greater commitments to scale up hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment services to people who inject drugs and people in prisons. In an analysis ... 30 million screened for hepatitis C in four months in Egypt Keith Alcorn / 11 April 2019 Egypt screened almost 30 million people for hepatitis C in the first four months of a national screening programme that kicked off in October 2018, Egyptian researchers announced at The International Liver Congress ... ← Prev1...34567...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