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STD Graffiti Treatments described in the medical news section may not be available in all countries. We do not sell the listed medicines. Drugs may have side effects not mentioned here. Newer generation direct acting antiviral medicines, daclatasvir and asunaprevir show promising results against treatment resistant hepatitis C genotype 1 infection. New England Journal of Medicine 2012 Jan 19; 366:216. For patients with hepatitis C virus infection, adding the protease inhibitor telaprevir to current standard therapy improves cure rate. Combination therapy including teaprevir produced cure in 75% of patients, while the success was only in 45 % of patients treated with standard therapy of pegylated interferon alfa-2a and ribavirin alone. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, 61st Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts, 29 October 2011
Strong association is observed between hepatitis C virus infection and cancer-associated strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) in women. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 2011; Abstract 469
Acute hepatitis C virus infection is a "silent epidemic" that is rising among HIV-infected men who have sex with men. AIDS Patient Care and STDs October 2011
US FDA has approved two new drugs in May 2011 for the treatment of Hepatitis C. They are Telaprevir (Incivek) and Boceprevir (Victrelis). Unlike the current treatment which acts by boosting patients' immune response, the new drugs act directly on the virus.
More than 170 million people, 3% of the world's population, are infected with the hepatitis C virus. Hepatology 2011 The incidence of HIV infection declined significantly among drug users, but the incidence of Hepatitis C infection did not. Compared with HIV, hepatitis C virus is more easily transmitted by blood. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2011 Mar 1; 203:587. Hepatitis C virus transmission by contaminated surfaces and objects is possible. Viral infectivity on inanimate surfaces was detectable in the presence of serum for up to 5 days. Journal of Infectious Diseases, online, 19 October 2011 Approximately one-third of HIV-positive people are co-infected with Chronic Hepatitis C. Eighteenth International AIDS Conference
In people with HIV and chronic hepatitis C co-infection, antiretroviral treatment produced poorer CD4 cell recovery. AIDS 2010 ; 24: 1857
Hemodialysis patients are at risk of hepatitis C virus infection. Pegylated IFN alfa‐2a monotherapy is safe and efficacious for hemodialysis patients with acute hepatitis C. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010; 51: 541
Patients infected with hepatitis C virus type 1 who fail to respond to pegylated interferon-alfa and ribavirin after 12 weeks may benefit from continuing treatment for up to 72 weeks: meta-analysis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2010
Hepatitis C virus induces chronic infection in 50% to 80% of infected persons; approximately 50% of these do not respond to therapy. Genetic variation, single nucleotide polymorphism in the IL28B locus, is associated with chronic infection and treatment failure in Hepatitis C. Gastroenterology 2010 Apr 70 percent of the hepatitis C affected individuals are infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C, the most difficult to treat. The Lancet, 2010 Hepatitis C virus infected persons have on average, 20% chance of developing liver cirrhosis after 20 years. The risk is even higher in those who consume alcohol and those who are co-infected with HIV. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2010;202:981
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