All the news Showing 10 of 59 articles from: Injecting drug useGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Hepatitis C testing linked to reduced opioid use among people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 25 October 2017 Getting tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV) was associated with reduced drug use, especially among those who tested positive, but even people who tested negative saw some reduction, according to study results presented ... 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 ... Indonesian buyers club helps people obtain generic hepatitis C treatment Liz Highleyman / 30 May 2017 A community-led buyers club in Indonesia has helped more than 100 people get generic direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs to treat hepatitis C and is seeing a high cure rate, according to a ... 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 ... Few young people with HCV in the US live close to needle-exchange services Michael Carter / 11 May 2017 The vast majority (80%) of young people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States have to travel at least ten miles to access needle exchange programmes, investigators report in the ... Harm reduction should address the specific needs of couples who inject drugs Roger Pebody / 03 April 2017 The sharing of drug injecting equipment most often occurs between sexual partners, but the ways in which couples manage risks and care for each other have been largely ignored by harm reduction ... People with HCV attaining SVR continue to have increased mortality risk but this is due to alcohol and drug use Michael Carter / 03 October 2016 Mortality rates among people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who attain a sustained virological response after HCV treatment are approximately twice as high as those expected in the general population, Scottish investigators report ... Risk of reinfection is a concern after successful hepatitis C treatment Liz Highleyman / 28 September 2016 People on opiate agonist substitution therapy can be successfully treated with grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) – achieving cure rates similar to those of the population as a whole – but some people are reinfected ... 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 ... INHSU 2016 opens with focus on hepatitis C prevention and treatment for people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 08 September 2016 The 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU 2016) got underway yesterday with an overview of the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs and ... ← Prev1...23456Next → 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