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New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Hepatitis C progress in pipeline: New drugs to treat virus expected be available in 2014-15

For more on this rapidly changing landscape, we turned to Dr. Donald M. Jensen, director of the Center for Liver Diseases at University of Chicago Medicine and a noted hepatitis C researcher, with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.

Published
29 January 2013
From
Chicago Tribune
Hepatitis C treatment side-effects
Vertex hepatitis C drug Incivek gets 'black box' warning over possible fatal skin conditions

The FDA says patients taking the pill in combination with two other treatments should stop immediately if they develop a rash that grows worse or comes with symptoms like a fever, diarrhea or mouth sores.

Published
20 December 2012
From
Washington Post
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Liver toxicity uncommon with modern antiretroviral drugs, but higher risk for HIV/HCV coinfected

Recently approved antiretroviral drugs are generally well-tolerated and seldom cause serious liver enzyme elevations, although protease inhibitors are somewhat more likely to do so, researchers reported in the November 28, 2012, advance online edition of AIDS. People with HIV/HCV coinfection are more likely to experience liver toxicity, however.

Published
06 December 2012
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HIVandHepatitis.com
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Recently approved antiretroviral drugs are generally well-tolerated and seldom cause serious liver enzyme elevations, although protease inhibitors are somewhat more likely to do so, researchers reported in the November 28, 2012, advance online edition of AIDS. People with HIV/HCV coinfection are more likely to experience liver toxicity, however.

Published
06 December 2012
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Will Dropping Interferon Be the Magic Bullet for Reducing HCV Mortality?

Let’s start with the basic premise that most individuals with chronic hepatitis C would like to be cured of this potentially life-threatening infection. If this premise is true, why then has the large majority of HCV-infected patients in the United States not been treated with previous and current standard therapies?

Published
26 October 2012
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Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Egypt launches world’s largest Hepatitis C patient registry

In a world where data means everything for the accuracy of diagnosis, treatment and cures, Egypt took a positive step by launching a first-of-its-kind detailed patient registry.

Published
22 October 2012
From
Ahram Online
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Mental Health in Hepatitis C: A European Expert Consensus Statement

European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) invited leading psychologists, psychiatrists and hepatologists to an expert conference in 2011. Martin Schaefer MD and his colleagues reviewed the scientific data and discussed their experience in the treatment of hepatitis C related psychiatric problems. The results were first presented at the EASL conference in Berlin in 2011. Since the conference, the recommendations were refined and updated further to include the new antiviral treatments, and will now be published as a “European Expert Consensus Statement“ in the Journal of Hepatology.

Published
09 October 2012
From
European Liver Patients Association
Hepatitis C treatment
Ordeal of hepatitis C treatment worth it

Daniel Berrner was diagnosed with HIV and hepatitis C in 2005, but it took four years to get the HIV infection under control enough to tackle the hepatitis C. This is his personal story of hepatitis C treatment.

Published
12 September 2012
From
San Francisco Chronicle
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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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