Tag: Treatment

Meeting people where they are is about much more than location: Delivering hepatitis C care and treatment to people who use drugs

Poverty, stigma and criminalization are chronic problems among people who use and inject drugs. But hepatitis C virus (HCV) is no longer such a problem, since it is usually cured by eight to 12 weeks […]

October 23, 2019 / Blog Archive
What it will take to eliminate hepatitis C in Canada

Canada is one of 194 countries that endorsed the World Health Organization’s Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis in 2016, committing to – among other things – the elimination of viral hepatitis as a […]

July 16, 2018 / Blog Archive
Is this the end for HCV drug development?

The last seven years have seen a whirlwind of hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug development. Each new treatment is generally more potent than the last. The latest treatments approved for HCV in Canada include Maviret […]

October 20, 2017 / Blog Archive

Meeting people where they are is about much more than location: Delivering hepatitis C care and treatment to people who use drugs