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How can HCV transmission be prevented?
Avoid injecting drugs to reduce your risk. If you do inject drugs, use sterile injection equipment. Avoid reusing or sharing. Avoid sharing personal care items that might have blood on them (razors, toothbrushes, nail clippers)
What are standard precautions?
Standard precautions are a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.
What are standard precautions based on?
Standard Precautions are used for all patient care. They’re based on a risk assessment and make use of common sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection and prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient.
What is DAA treatment?
Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy is highly efficacious for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in individuals >65 years; however, those ³75 years are more likely to be at risk for significant drug-drug interactions and experience adverse events during therapy, according to a retrospective study …
Who HCV elimination?
Acute HCV infections are usually asymptomatic and most do not lead to a life-threatening disease. Around 30\% (15–45\%) of infected persons spontaneously clear the virus within 6 months of infection without any treatment. The remaining 70\% (55–85\%) of persons will develop chronic HCV infection.
Which HCV genotype is easiest to treat?
In the United States, hepatitis C genotype 3 is less commonly contracted than genotype 1, but genotype 3 is also harder to treat….Genotype 3 has been found to respond better to newer drug combinations, including:
- glecaprevir-pibrentasvir (Mavyret)
- sofosbuvir-velpatasvir (Epclusa)
- daclatasvir-sofosbuvir (Sovaldi)