What Can You Do To Prevent HCV

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Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange

The Programming Connection: Linking Evidence to Practice for HIV and HCV Prevention in Canada

To increase the impact of their work and deliver even better programming, service providers are coming forward to ask what's working and what's not working -- not only in their own programs but in the work of fellow service providers. As one step in... Read more »

Prevention and Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)

In high-income countries such as Canada, Australia and the U.S. and in regions such as Western Europe, hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be spread in the following ways: by sharing equipment for substance use (such as needles, straws and rolled-up... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Association of Syringe Type and Syringe Cleaning With HCV Infection Among IDUs in Budapest, Hungary

The researchers studied whether syringe type, syringe cleaning, and distributive syringe sharing were associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (self-reported and laboratory-confirmed) among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Hungary. Between... Read more »

Ask the Experts

HCV and condom

hi doc,recently in wikipedia i saw CDC has not recommended use of condom for serodiscordant (for HCV) monogamous heterosexual couple. Is it not risky to do so? Can HCV and HIV be transmitted through unprotected receptive and insertive fellatio if...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

The CDC basically states that the risk of HCV transmission among steady sex partners is low. But it does not state that there is NO risk. I counsel couples that the risk is very low (about 1 to 2 percent) and that the decision to use condoms or not... Read more »

Treatment for HCV with low PCR and no liver disease

Hello Drs. thank you for your time. I have a few questions after reading the CDC update on HCV. I am a 33yr old female and was first tested positive with HCV, and negative for all other diseases, in 1994. I am still negative for all other diseases...

Response from Maribel Rodriguez-Torres, M.D.

Fundacion Gatroenterologia De Diego

The test to check the genotype is exactly that:HCV genotype.There are tests that measure as low as 50iu or copies.The only test that gives definite information of the liver status, is the biopsy.Patients can have severe liver disease with normal... Read more »

lifespan of HCV

Hello,I am very confused about the different answers I have found about the lifespan of HCV outside the body. The CDC claims it can live for 4-16 days on surfaces, but you have written in your responses that it dies pretty fast, unless in a blood...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

There is a big differene between a live virus and one that is capable of transmitting disease. Technically the virus can live that long but a thin film of dried up virus on a flat surface is not really a risk for transmission. Remember, the virus... Read more »

Pamela Anderson HCV

How you think , Pamela Anderson acknowledging , that she is HCV will help to prevent and find cure for diseases....

Response from Michael Fried, M.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Celebrities who acknowledge having a disease often work hard to publicize the disease and focus attention on the need to develop new therapies and prevention strategies. Naomi Judd was a good example, who worked with the American Liver Foundation.... Read more »

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Friends of the HIV and HCV Communities

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Friends of the HIV and HCV Communities:

In preface I want you to understand how fortunate I feel to live
in the United States under the care of excellent physicians and
with access to the medications I need. I have spent many hours
wondering and... Read more »

Anyone out there coinfected w/ HIV/HCV?

Posted by AMERIBOI2003, 3 Replies

New to this site and I would like to talk to anyone who may be coinfected w/ HIV/HCV. Anyone who has gone through treatment for HCV. Can answers some questions that I have to help me weigh all of my considerations for treatment. Read more »

Exposure to HCV DELETED

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Anyone out there coinfected w/ HIV/HCV?

Posted by AMERIBOI2003, 1 Reply

Hi guys new to web site. Wanting info from anyone who has or is doing treatment for Hepatitus C. What has been your experiences. Interested in sharing w/me to help me make the best decision. I have yet to start treatment for the Hepatitus. Read more »

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