{"id":190205,"date":"2021-05-27T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pasha-108-some-good-news-in-the-fight-against-hepatitis-c-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:13:09","slug":"pasha-108-some-good-news-in-the-fight-against-hepatitis-c-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pasha-108-some-good-news-in-the-fight-against-hepatitis-c-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasha 108: Some good news in the fight against hepatitis C in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Globally, there are around 71 million people with hepatitis C. In Africa, more than 10 million people are infected with the virus.<\/p>\n

The new oral therapies that have been developed to treat hepatitis C are much more effective and easier to take than the previous injections, and have fewer side effects.<\/p>\n

In high-income countries, these drugs are known to work well. But the number of strains of the virus is limited in those countries. So it wasn\u2019t known how useful the new drugs would be to treat other strains, mostly found in low-income countries. Over time the virus has become extremely genetically diverse.<\/p>\n

A new study shows that the direct-acting antiviral drugs are also effective against more of the strains. They were shown to work against almost all the hepatitis C virus strains found across Africa. <\/p>\n

This is valuable information for health systems in countries that have a limited infrastructure to diagnose infection, treat those who are infected and confirm that treatment has been successful. They need to know what works. <\/p>\n

In today\u2019s episode of Pasha, researchers John McLauchlan and Elihu Aranday-Cortes discuss hepatitis C and why the findings of their study are good news for low-income settings. <\/p>\n

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Read more: New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries<\/a> <\/strong> <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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Photo:<\/strong>
\u201cDestruction of hepatitis C virus, 3D illustration. Conceptual image for hepatitis C treatment\u201d by Kateryna Kon found on Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

Music:<\/strong>
\n\u201cHappy African Village\u201d by John Bartmann, found on FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under CC0 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGimme That African Vibe by John Bartmann found on FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under Attribution 4.0 International License.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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