All the news Showing 8 of 8 articles from: Promoting hepatitis testingGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Self-sampling for hepatitis C improves diagnosis rate in the Netherlands Keith Alcorn / 01 June 2022 Online risk assessment for hepatitis C and home-based sampling for HCV-RNA testing proved acceptable, easy to use and resulted in a high rate of diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C infections among gay ... 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 ... Active invitation to test for viral hepatitis greatly improves uptake of testing among South Asians in England Keith Alcorn / 16 April 2018 Inviting migrants and their children by post to test for hepatitis B and C in primary care settings results in the identification of a high prevalence of previously undiagnosed infections, ... 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 ... Advanced liver damage is common in people with undiagnosed hepatitis C in US survey Keith Alcorn / 25 April 2015 Around one in five of people with hepatitis C in the United States who do not know of their infection may already have advanced liver damage and be in urgent need of ... General practitioners urged to test for viral hepatitis in all patients with liver abnormalities Caspar Thomson / 29 July 2013 General practitioners in Europe need to be more alert for possible signs of viral hepatitis and test patients accordingly, the spokesperson for Europe’s liver disease specialists said on Friday. Speaking at a press ... New US guidelines recommend hepatitis C test for everyone born between 1945 and 1965 Michael Carter / 21 August 2012 Anyone born between 1945 and 1965 should be tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to new guidance released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Surveillance (CDC). The guidance quotes ... Hepatitis C testing rate low and knowledge of the infection poor in the US "baby boomer" generation Michael Carter / 18 May 2012 Only a quarter of US individuals in the generation most likely to have hepatitis C have ever been tested for the infection, results of a survey conducted by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) ... ← First1Next → 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