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Initial HCV test results are false positive in almost half of general population

Nearly half of patients in the general population who test positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) do not have the disease, according to Dr. Anne Moorman and her associates.

Published
08 February 2017
From
Family Practice News
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
First WHO prequalified hepatitis C rapid test opens the door to expanded treatment

WHO has just prequalified its first hepatitis C virus (HCV) rapid diagnostic test, a tool that will aid diagnosis of HCV in low- and middle-income countries and improve access to treatment.

Published
05 December 2016
From
World Health Organization
Hepatitis C treatment
A promising Hep C program seems to be working — and it could be a model for other countries

Georgia, a country nestled against the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia with a population of 3.7 million, has since taken on a public health effort to help reduce its prevalence of hepatitis C (HCV for short) by 90% by 2020.

Published
24 October 2016
From
Business Insider
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Study Finds Patients with Hepatitis C Have Higher Hospitalization Rate

A study that explored the healthcare burden of chronic infection of the hepatitis C virus found that patients with the disease were more than 3 times likely to be hospitalized than patients in a comparison group.

Published
31 May 2016
From
MD Magazine
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Primrose Healthcare Launches an Innovative Alcohol App to Help Hepatitis C Patients Overcome Alcohol Addiction

Leveraging mobile technology and powered by Here and Now Systems, the alcohol app provides personalized education and resources through goal setting, alerts, coaching, and ongoing feedback to better engage and support hepatitis C patients on their journey toward alcohol addiction recovery.

Published
24 May 2016
From
Business Wire (press release)
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Hepatitis C-related deaths hit record high in US, CDC says

Deaths from the liver disease hepatitis C reached an all-time high in 2014, killing more Americans than HIV, tuberculosis and staph infections. New data released Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more Americans die now as a result of hepatitis C infection than from 60 other infectious diseases combined.

Published
05 May 2016
From
Washington Post
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Research shows doctors are failing to diagnose more than 50% of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)

Survey results show people living with HCV in the UK, the Netherlands and Belarus are less likely to be diagnosed than their global counterparts, increasing the possibility of liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Findings from HCV Quest, a global patient survey with 4,000 respondents from across the world, showed that half of people diagnosed with HCV reported that their doctors had initially failed to recognise symptoms and less than 46% were referred for a test.

Published
14 April 2016
From
World Hepatitis Alliance
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Hepatitis C: The task now is identifying people who don’t know they’re infected and connecting them to care

Interview with Luis Mendão, chair of both the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) and Group of Activists on Treatments (GAT), a treatment activist group in Portugal.

Published
14 April 2016
From
BioMed Central blogs
Hepatitis C treatment
mapCrowd: an online data collection platform for hepatitis C information

Médecins du Monde (MdM) and Treatment Action Group (TAG) are pleased to announce the launch of mapCrowd (www.mapCrowd.org), an innovative online resource and data collection platform for gathering and sharing hepatitis C information.

Published
09 February 2016
From
Treatment Action Group
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Hepatitis Testing Contest

Our team in collaboration with the WHO Global Hepatitis Program is organizing an innovation contest on hepatitis B and C testing. The purpose of this contest is to identify innovative examples of delivering hepatitis B and C testing that will be highlighted within the 2016 WHO Hepatitis Testing Guidelines.

Published
19 January 2016
From
Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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