All the news Showing 10 of 32 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources New cases of hepatitis C declining in people with HIV as access to treatment broadens Keith Alcorn / 21 February 2022 The availability of direct-acting antivirals has led to a 50% reduction in new cases of hepatitis among people with HIV in some high-income settings, a six-country study presented this week ... 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 ... Low dead-space syringes associated with lower hepatitis C prevalence in people who inject drugs Keith Alcorn / 01 October 2018 Exclusive use of low dead-space syringes is associated with a lower prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in people who inject drugs, especially in people who began injecting drugs recently, a study ... Does drug injection equipment other than syringes transmit hepatitis C? Liz Highleyman / 19 September 2017 Sharing drug preparation paraphernalia may not significantly contribute to hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission among people who inject drugs, according to a study recently published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. In an experiment designed ... New hepatitis C infections tripled in US over the past five years Liz Highleyman / 22 May 2017 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data last week showing that the number of new hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections reported to the agency nearly tripled between 2010 ... Study finds higher than expected hepatitis C prevalence among HIV-negative gay men in Amsterdam PrEP programme Liz Highleyman / 11 April 2017 An unexpectedly high number of HIV-negative gay and bisexual men taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Amsterdam were found to have hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, suggesting HCV is being transmitted sexually between men ... HCV treatment is effective and may work as prevention for people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 19 September 2016 Hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs is as safe and effective as it is for non-drug-users – with cure rates exceeding 90% – and treating enough people in this population could ... Viral hepatitis is now the seventh most important cause of death worldwide Michael Carter / 13 July 2016 Viral hepatitis is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, data from the Global Burden of Disease Study published in The Lancet shows. Between 1990 and 2013, the number of deaths attributable ... Only treating patients with cirrhosis with DAAs will have limited impact on HCV epidemic in England Michael Carter / 24 May 2016 Targeting new hepatitis C virus (HCV) direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) at patients with cirrhosis will substantially reduce short-term incidence of end-stage liver disease (ESLD) and liver cancer (HCC) in England, according to a model ... Survey shows more than 800,000 people in US have hepatitis B, half of them Asian Liz Highleyman / 23 February 2016 Although nearly 70 million people in the US have been vaccinated against hepatitis B virus (HBV), there are still 847,000 people with evidence of infection, about 400,000 of whom are Asian, according ... ← First123...4Next → 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