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2. What People Who Inject Drugs Should Know about Hepatitis C ...

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   Certain medications are recommended more for certain genotypes (and subgenotypes) of hepatitis C than for others, for example. Hepatitis C treatment guidelines also vary based on whether you have ...

3. Understanding hepatitis C: A growing public health concern - AOL

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   Mar. 14—Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis C virus. It is becoming a big public health concern in many counties, including Lawrence County, encouraging us to review some ...

4. Hepatitis C - Wikipedia

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   Chronic hepatitis C is defined as infection with the hepatitis C virus persisting for more than six months based on the presence of its RNA. [18] Chronic infections are typically asymptomatic during the first few decades, [ 18 ] and thus are most commonly discovered following the investigation of elevated liver enzyme levels or during a routine ...

5. Here's What Hepatitis C Actually Is—and How You Get It - AOL

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   For the other, roughly 70 percent of people with hepatitis C, the body’s immune system cannot boot the virus out so easily, and eventually, the infection becomes ongoing, or chronic, lasting for ...

6. Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir - Wikipedia

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   Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, sold under the brand name Epclusa among others, is a fixed-dose combination medication for the treatment of hepatitis C in adults. [2] [5] [6] [7] It combines sofosbuvir and velpatasvir. [2] [5] [6] It is more than 90% effective for hepatitis C genotypes one through six. [2]

7. Peginterferon alfa-2a - Wikipedia

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   Pegylated interferon alfa-2a, sold under the brand name Pegasys among others, is medication used to treat hepatitis C and hepatitis B. [3] For hepatitis C it is typically used together with ribavirin and cure rates are between 24 and 92%. [3] [4] For hepatitis B it may be used alone. [5] It is given by injection under the skin. [3] Side effects ...