#Europe

Iceland becomes the first high-income country to meet the WHO’s targets for diagnosing and treating hepatitis C.

Researchers are seeking to understand why only 5% of babies born to mothers with hep C become infected.

A recent Swedish study defined a low-level detectable viral load as between 50 and 999.

This finding, which is in keeping with initial studies out of China and Italy, is preliminary as the CDC continues to gather data.

A systematic review of hep C treatment outcomes in this population shows they have high cure rates and relatively low reinfection rates.

I have spent a lot of time and energy figuring out ways to smuggle medicines to people in need of them.

Danish researchers followed 71 people who were cured with Sovaldi-based treatment.

Chemsex typically refers to sex with multiple partners involving recreational drugs including meth, GHB and MDMA.

The United States isn’t alone in grappling with this growing health problem.

Restricting the testing program to only people who inject drugs did not improve its cost effectiveness.

Researchers analyzed more than 350 studies to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B among people with HIV around the world.

It’s time, leaders say, to decentralize hepatitis C care from urban areas and get nonspecialists to provide care.

Nevertheless, researchers are hoping to learn more from the study of the caspase inhibitor among people with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Swiss researchers analyzed shifts in kidney function among those switching from the old form of the HIV medication to the new one.

Researchers conducted an analysis of hep C treatment outcomes in those also living with HIV in Western nations.

These drugs are approved to treat all six major genotypes of hepatitis C.