All the news Showing 10 of 37 articles from: Injecting drug useGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources 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 ... Hepatitis C virus reinfection is uncommon after being cured with DAAs Liz Highleyman / 22 May 2017 Most people on opiate substitution therapy were successfully treated for hepatitis C with an interferon-free regimen of grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier), and only a small number became reinfected during three years of follow-up, researchers reported ... 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 ... Hepatitis C treatment can be provided successfully at syringe programme sites Liz Highleyman / 18 April 2017 Administering direct-acting antiviral therapy for people who inject drugs at a syringe exchange site led to high sustained response rates in a pilot study in New York City, researchers reported at the recent ... 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 ... Outflanking the war on drugs? IRIN / 03 March 2016 ‘Game-changing’ infection therapies plus harm reduction ‘flood’ would roll back hepatitis C epidemic Drug & Alcohol Findings / 27 November 2015 UK: Almost half of people who inject drugs unaware they have hepatitis C Public Health England / 13 November 2015 Emergency needle exchange in Indiana reduces HIV and HCV risk for people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 30 October 2015 An emergency syringe exchange program implemented after an outbreak of HIV earlier this year in the state of Indiana led to a decrease in risk behaviours including needle sharing during its first five ... ← Prev1234Next → 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