All the news Showing 10 of 56 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Hepatitis C infection and reinfection among men who have sex with men Liz Highleyman / 29 September 2016 Public health officials in Michigan have identified a cluster of more than 20 cases of apparently sexually transmitted hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men, according to a report ... 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 ... A third of MSM with HIV/HCV co-infection have HCV in their semen Michael Carter / 11 April 2016 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is present in the semen of a third of co-infected HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), investigators from the United States report in Open Forum Infectious ... 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 ... Hepatitis C treatment could halve HCV transmission among gay men in UK over 10 years Keith Alcorn / 24 June 2015 Access to more effective hepatitis C treatment could halve new infections among men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom over the next decade, according to a modelling study presented ... High response rates with telaprevir triple therapy for HIV-positive men with acute hepatitis C Liz Highleyman / 05 November 2013 Adding telaprevir (Incivo or Incivek) to pegylated interferon and ribavirin shortens the duration of treatment and improves sustained response rates for HIV-positive men with acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to ... 1% of US deaths related to viral hepatitis Michael Carter / 30 September 2013 Viral hepatitis was associated with approximately 1% of deaths in the US in 2010, research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases demonstrates. The burden of mortality associated with hepatitis B virus ... WHO hepatitis report: almost two-thirds of countries lack a national strategy on viral hepatitis Keith Alcorn / 24 July 2013 A survey of World Health Organization member countries released ahead of World Hepatitis Day on 28 July shows that nearly two-thirds still have no national plan to combat hepatitis, despite a 2010 ... New HCV combinations could have a big role in prevention, but only if treatment rates increase Michael Carter / 15 May 2013 New combinations of hepatitis C drugs could have major public health benefits, a modelling study published in the online edition of Hepatology shows. Scaling-up treatment rates in Edinburgh, Melbourne and Vancouver has the ... Report highlights major failings in UK response to hepatitis C Michael Carter / 07 May 2013 The UK needs to “be doing so much more” in response to hepatitis C, according to a new report. Supported by a consortium of leading hepatitis C charities, Confronting the silent epidemic: a ... ← 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 Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive