BHIVA 2017: London Data Shows Hepatitis C Is Transmitted During Anal Sex Without Condoms
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- Category: Gay & Bisexual Men/MSM
- Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
Around 1 in 5 HIV-positive gay men who recently acquired hepatitis C virus (HCV) report anal sex without a condom as the only behavior that could explain their infection. At the same time, a third of people acquiring HCV were gay men who did not have HIV, clinicians from the Mortimer Market Centre in London reported at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week in Liverpool. The data suggest that prevention messages around sexually transmitted hepatitis C need to change.
Coverage of 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU 2016)
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- Category: People Who Inject Drugs
- Published on Friday, 30 September 2016 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU 2016), September 7-9 in Oslo, Norway.
Highlights include hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs and people in prison, extra-hepatic manifestations of hepatitis C, and development of an HCV vaccine.
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Interferon-Free Hepatitis C Treatment Safe and Effective for People Who Inject Drugs
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- Category: People Who Inject Drugs
- Published on Saturday, 03 September 2016 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Chronic hepatitis C patients on opioid substitution therapy, including those who continue to use illicit drugs, maintained good adherence and had high sustained response rates when treated with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir (Harvoni) or sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa), according to a pair of ad-hoc analyses published in the August online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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