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A US study
presented at last month’s HIV Research for Prevention conference found generally
positive responses among people with HIV and clinic staff to a trial that used
$70 gift tokens as an incentive for people to attend clinic regularly,
refill their HIV treatment drug prescriptions, and maintain an undetectable viral load.
However, the
study found

 
A 12-week oral combination
of sofosbuvir plus the experimental NS5A inhibitor GS-5816 demonstrated high
sustained virological response rates for people with difficult-to-treat HCV
genotype 3 and other genotypes, according to phase 2 study findings presented at
the American Association for the Study of Liver
Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting last week in Boston. Reducing treatment duration

The UK’s annual epidemiological report, released yesterday,
shows that the country already provides HIV treatment to 90% of people attending
clinical services and that 90% of those on treatment have an undetectable viral
load. But the country has a long way to go in ensuring that people with HIV
are aware of their HIV

«Le opzioni terapeutiche di cui disponiamo, incluse le più recenti, nonostante la loro indiscutibile efficacia, lasciano aperti numerosi problemi: sono attive principalmente contro i genotipi 1 e 4 di HCV, e molto meno efficaci per circa un terzo dei pazienti, quelli con genotipo 2 e 3, e non danno risposte soddisfacenti in presenza di cirrosi compensata e scompensata.

An all-oral regimen of
grazoprevir (MK-5172) and elbasvir (MK-8742), taken with or without
ribavirin for 12 weeks, demonstrated high sustained virological response (SVR) rates
for treatment-naive and treatment-experienced people with genotype 1 hepatit…

Sofosbuvir/ledipasvir without
ribavirin and AbbVie’s 3D regimen (paritaprevir/ombitasvir plus dasabuvir) both
produced high sustained virological response rates for people with hepatitis C
virus (HCV) genotype 4, according to a pair of studies presente…

A large French study has shown that the vast
majority of people living with HIV who started treatment since 2000 in a
national cohort achieved a CD4 cell count in the normal range within three to
four years of starting treatment, while a large Italian …

An oral regimen of
sofosbuvir/ledipasvir plus ribavirin taken for 12 weeks cured most hepatitis C
patients with decompensated cirrhosis, the most advanced stage of liver
disease, according to a presentation on Tuesday at the American Association for th…

People with HIV – most of whom had hepatitis B
or C co-infection – generally had good outcomes after liver transplantation due
to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with five-year survival rates similar to
those of HIV-negative transplant recipients and better than those of people who
underwent other types of liver cancer treatment, researchers reported this

One of the key strategies involved in trying to bring an end
to the HIV epidemic is to increase the proportion of HIV-positive people on antiretroviral
therapy (ART), to the point where suppressing their viral load starts to reduce
onward infection.
What is usually called ‘treatment as prevention’ lies behind
the
ambitious new target announced