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[…] was the news from Professor Graham Foster, professor of at Queen Mary University Hospital London, that there is a pot of £70m available for the treatment of hepatitis C. He explained that, from January, there’ll no longer be the need for combination therapy, with the release of a new licensed drug that will not […]

[…] and e-cigarettes, which many smokers find helpful for quitting, are now regulated to assure their safety and quality.’ HEP OPTIMISM Another ‘potential curative’ drug for people with hepatitis C is to be made available on the NHS, according to new guidance published by NICE. Elbasvir/grazoprevir has shown cure rates above 90 per cent in […]

[…] chronological age. So the likely cause of death for those in treatment has moved from overdose to chronic illness, with COPD, cancers and end-stage liver disease from hepatitis C now commonly listed on death certificates. I am as keen as anyone to promote recovery in the form of long-term abstinence, but also feel we […]

[…] nation­al naloxone programme, work on quality development and service improvement, strong user involvement including a programme to train people in recovery to join the workforce, programmes on hepatitis and needle exchange, and work with the Scottish Prison Service, including dealing with NPS in prisons. The absence of a clear pathway to the drug and […]

[…] celebrate recovery you’re aware that what works for you may not work for other people.’ Indicative of the overall problem was that one current target was for hepatitis C testing, he said. ‘So you can say you’ve offered testing to 99 per cent of your clients, but only 1 per cent are treated, which […]

[…] I was pretty much ill all the time, and I didn’t want to die from something I could do something about.’ He got in touch with the Hepatitis C Trust – ‘who were great’ – and they helped point him towards a treatment pathway. Once on this, he and a friend from rehab began […]

[…] challenging the criminal ban. All applicants are people who inject drugs with very similar stories of many years of opioid use and all its consequences, including HIV, hepatitis C, TB, prosecution by police, and incarceration. In the ECHR the applicants claimed that by denying them access to OST the Russian authorities had violated their […]

[…] how commonplace it has become for this crucial first meeting to be facilitated in a room ‘decorated’ exclusively in posters threatening certain death from overdose, HIV and hepatitis, often precariously tacked next to greyscale warnings of the latest bad batch of heroin in local circulation. Workers often report feeling pressured to hurriedly collect meaningful and […]

[…] We need to keep the right balance between public health and treatment needs. We need to ensure that public health protection continues – needle exchange, HIV testing, hepatitis C testing, overdose prevention – we need the mixed package. That’s the message that’s got to come through, and there will be a steep learning curve […]

[…] cent on the previous year, while seizures of cocaine hydrochloride increased by more 150 per cent. Coca crop monitoring survey at www.unodc.org Hep course A new PHE-commissioned hepatitis C awareness course for people who work with drug users, but who don’t have a medical background, has been developed by RCGP. The free online course […]

[…] misuse to cut down drastically on sugar, which has previously been perceived as a relatively harmless vice? A person who has experienced liver damage from alcohol or hepatitis C may be unaware that high levels of sugar can also contribute to damage. Although such individuals haven’t been specifically studied, cardiologist and science director at […]

[…] commission the services recommended by NICE,’ it states. Available at http://cep.lse.ac.uk Hep consultation NICE is consulting on new guidance aimed at improving the uptake of testing for hepatitis B and C. Ignorance about risk factors and misconceptions about treatment need to be tackled if barriers to effective testing of those at increased risk are […]

[…] Indeed, a 2013 study by John Moores and Public Health England (PHE) found that one in ten steroid drugs had been exposed to one or more of hepatitis C, B or HIV. Is there enough awareness of those risks? ‘Well, what we’ve found repeatedly has been a comparable level of HIV in anabolic steroid […]

[…] use drugs, destruction of drug crops and other drug control measures,’ says the organisation. ‘HRI argues that if just a tenth of this money were redirected to harm reduction, it could fill the gap in HIV and Hepatitis C prevention for people who use drugs twice over. Global state of harm reduction 2014 at www.ihra.net