What Every Woman Needs to Know About Hepatitis B and C

What Every Woman Needs to Know About Hepatitis B and C



This webinar highlights the importance of our liver and the 500 vital functions it performs, viral hepatitis and how this disease can damage the liver; and the good news -- that a vaccine to prevent hepatitis B, treatments for hepatitis B and C, and a cure for hepatitis C -- are available!!

The Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) and the Office of Women's Health (OWH) hosted a webinar with the following objectives:

Increase awareness and knowledge of viral hepatitis and its impact on women, especially among OWH grantees;

Encourage OWH grantees and others to share viral hepatitis information with their communities; and

Provide a woman's personal perspective on being diagnosed with and treated for hepatitis C.

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Women and HCV

Source - Hepatitis C New Drug Research and Liver Health 

The effect of hepatitis C on the female gender remains a controversial topic, literature into various aspects of infection, such as spontaneous clearance, progression of fibrosis, response to interferon-based therapy favor women but vary in different study cohorts, and have been found to be highly influenced by two female host factors; age and menopausal status.

In this slide-set we explore all of the above, HCV transmission and gender specific host factors that can influence disease progression using recent literature published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis, and Hepatology, as well as the article; “Women With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Recommendations for Clinical Practice,” found in the July 2013 issue of Southern Medical Journal.

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