{"id":7048,"date":"2017-05-31T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/?p=7048\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:13:26","slug":"hcv_summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/hcv_summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Is Now To Eliminate Hepatitis C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind has the capacity and knowledge to eliminate the Hepatitis C virus from Earth &#8211; but stigma, prejudice and greed stand in the way. Watch our movie produced in cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.correlation-net.org\/\">Correlation Network<\/a> and learn more!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Correlation Network, together with a number of partners, organised a Hepatitis C Community Summit in April 2017 in Amsterdam, because this is a historic moment for Hepatitis C treatment. With the advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) we can now massively reduce the harm from an infectious disease that affects millions of people and causes hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. Interferon-free DAA regimes are short, highly tolerable, and simple to deliver, with cure rates of over 90%.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cUSZi1A_wGE?ecver=1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hepatitis C elimination will on the one hand require an enormous scale-up in testing and treatment, along with comprehensive harm reduction services including in prisons, and on the other hand a sustained collaborative effort to combat the stigma, discrimination, and criminalisation faced by people who inject drugs, as well as other priority communities, like migrants and men having sex with men.<\/p>\n<p>Communities, harm reduction, and community representatives must participate in formulating and implementing Hepatitis C prevention, testing, and treatment strategies because these stakeholders have unique knowledge about what will be accessible, acceptable, and effective.\u00a0Without their close and ongoing involvement, the effort to eliminate Hepatitis C is likely to fail.<\/p>\n<p>The video highlights the most important aspects of the Community Summit and relevant topics to address for Hepatitis C elimination.<\/p>\n<p>For more information\u00a0www.hepatitiscommunitysummit.eu<\/p>\n<p>Video by Peter Sarosi and Istvan Gabor Takacs<br \/>\nArticle by Eberhard Schatz, Correlation Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind has the capacity and knowledge to eliminate the Hepatitis C virus from Earth &#8211; but stigma, prejudice and greed stand in the way. 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