All the news Showing 8 of 938 articlesGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources HBV treatment for people with HIV Entecavir and Truvada an option for HBV for treatment-experienced HIV/HBV-co-infected patients Michael Carter / 30 March 2011 A combination of entecavir with Truvada is an effective and safe option for HIV/hepatitis B-co-infected patients whose current therapy is not suppressing hepatitis B viral load, investigators from the north of England ... HBV vaccination Accelerated HBV vaccination schedule an option for HIV patients if CD4 cell count is high Michael Carter / 30 March 2011 An accelerated hepatitis B vaccination schedule could be an option for HIV-positive patients with a high CD4 cell count, Dutch research published in the April 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious ... Hepatitis C Good survival rates for HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated cirrhosis Michael Carter / 14 March 2011 Medium-term survival rates in patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C who have compensated cirrhosis are good and comparable to those seen in hepatitis C-mono-infected individuals, Spanish investigators report in the online edition ... Sex between men High rate of HCV reinfection after treatment of acute infection in Amsterdam gay men Keith Alcorn / 10 March 2011 Just over one-quarter of gay men with HIV successfully treated for acute hepatitis C infection became reinfected with hepatitis C within two years, almost all with a different genotype, Amsterdam doctors reported last ... Treatment for people living with HIV and HCV Telaprevir works well for people with HIV/HCV co-infection Liz Highleyman / 02 March 2011 The experimental hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor telaprevir, used with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin, produced good virological response in the first study of HIV/HCV co-infected individuals, according to interim data presented on Wednesday ... Hepatitis C 9% prevalence of hepatitis C co-infection among UK HIV patients Michael Carter / 14 February 2011 Just under 9% of HIV-positive individuals in the UK are co-infected with hepatitis C virus, investigators report in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis. “In comparison with other large cohort studies, the ... Sex and drug use driving HCV epidemic among HIV-positive gay men in Australia; other study shows small epidemic in US Michael Carter / 02 February 2011 The hepatitis C epidemic in HIV-positive gay men is being driven by both sexual transmission and injecting drug use, Australian research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests. Sexual risk ... Good outcomes among HIV-positive patients having a liver transplant due to cancer Michael Carter / 31 January 2011 HIV-positive patients who have a liver transplant because of liver cancer can have good outcomes, French research published in the February edition of Hepatology shows. The study compared rates of overall survival ... ← Prev1...9091929394Next → 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