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People who are living with all three viruses have a greater likelihood of progressing to end-stage liver disease.

Risk-based testing alone has failed to identify a majority of people living with chronic HBV.

Researchers suggest cannabis use alone should not be a reason to deny transplants.

FDA issued draft guidelines on a new blood donation policy; it now seeks public comment before the changes are finalized.

Conspiracy theorists ignore Magic Johnson’s own words: “I am certain that I was infected by having unprotected sex with a woman.”

Experts predict that more than a million people could die from liver cancer worldwide in 2040.

Greater political will and financial support for national programs are needed to eliminate viral hepatitis.

Amid this crisis, state and local government officials have enacted laws and ordinances that make clean syringes harder to get.

Even without HBV immunoglobulin, no infants acquired hepatitis B from mothers with a high viral load.

Black people make up only 6% and Latino people make up 5% of participants in cirrhosis trials in the United States.

Plus: Over 10 prevention services related to hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted infections covered by the Affordable Care Act.

Diabetes and a large waist circumference are predictors of liver fat accumulation and fibrosis.

The Pennsylvania law increases penalties for spitting on a police officer and committing actions that could transmit HIV, hep B and more.

The antiviral treatment is safe and effective for pediatric patients ages 12 and up.

Signed at a Fast-Track Cities conference, the Sevilla Declaration urges “the centrality of affected communities in urban HIV responses.”