Active clinical trials for "Hepatitis C"

Cross-sectional study of patients consulting in the emergency room of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), to assess the implementation of an "opt-out" screening program for HIV and HCV and prospective follow-up for 3 months of positive cases.

This study will test the effects of an intervention to reduce substance use and related harms among people leaving rural jails or otherwise involved in the criminal justice system. This study will compare people in a health linkage intervention with people who will get overdose (OD) education. Everyone will take part in the baseline and follow-up surveys and receive OD education. Participants will be assigned to one of the two groups by chance based on when they are enrolled to the study and if their county is randomly assigned to an intervention or a comparison condition. By doing this study, the investigators hope to learn if providing linkage to health services along with HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and overdose education to people leaving rural jails or otherwise involved in the criminal justice system will reduce substance use and related harms.

Given the disproportionately high risk of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the baby boomer cohort, population-based screening has been demonstrated cost effective. Compared to point-of-care testing, however, bulk health messages with coupled lab requisitions delivered directly to patients meeting screening criteria via patient portals could improve HCV screening at minimal cost.

This trial will be done in participants who undergo transplantation of heart, kidney or lung at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and receive a hepatitis C infected donor organ. In this trial, the plan is to start hepatitis C treatment just before transplant surgery and treat for a short one-week course to see if hepatitis C infection can be prevented in the transplant recipient. The plan is to perform this trial in 10 participants and if successful, the next step is to try to make it standard of care as prevention of infection is better than treating hepatitis C after discharge from transplant surgery (which is usually a 12 week standard treatment).

This study has two parts. Part A will assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics (PK) of AT-777 in healthy subjects. Part B will assess the safety, antiviral activity/efficacy and PK of AT-777 in combination with AT-527 after 8 weeks of treatment in HCV-infected subjects.

Title Reaching out to the UNdiagnosed people infected with blood-borne viral infections (RUNtoBBV) Objectives 1. To study the efficacy of an outreach methodology to increase the uptake for screening, linkage to care and treatment in (active or former) people who use drugs (PWUD) Trial design Prospective multicenter interventional cohort design Number of subjects 336 inclusions (with prevalence of HCV Ab: 30%) 168 Antwerp 168 Limburg Selection criteria Inclusion criteria: 18 years of age History of/ or active drug use Written informed consent obtained Exclusion criteria Currently enrolled in centralized OST program of Free Clinic or CAD Limburg Endpoints The following endpoints will be compared between the centers in Limburg and Antwerp: (Main outcome in bold) Main objectives: Prevalence of blood-borne viral infections in Belgian (former or active) PWUD: HCV infection (number of HCV Ab+ / number of screened PWUD) HBV infection (number of HBsAg+/number of screened PWUD) HIV infection (number of HIV Ab+/number of screened PWUD) Analysis of linkage to care to hepatologist/ infectiologist (number of patients who adhered to their consultation/number of referred patients) Secondary objectives: Analysis of risk behavior/sociodemographics linked to presence of BBV infections Analysis of uptake of anti(retro)viral treatment (number of patients started on treatment/number of patients needing treatment) Analysis of treatment adherence (adherence to treatment consultations/total planned consultations) Analysis of treatment outcome (total number of cured or virally suppressed patients/total number of treated patients)

Patients who completed the conventional treatment against HCV and relapsed (the virus appeared again in their blood) have no effective therapy.

Different immunosuppressive drugs used in transplantation may reduce the body's defences against infection differently. It is known that patients with Hepatitis C virus, known as HCV, who switched from azathioprine to mycophenolate mofetil experienced an increase in viral load. Despite this, mycophenolate mofetil is used because it prevents rejection more reliably than azathioprine. Sirolimus is an another immunosuppressive agent that reliably prevents rejection and may have antiviral activity. This study is designed to see if the viral load of HCV and other viruses is reduced by switching from mycophenolate to sirolimus.

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI)- Imaging compared to Transient Elastography (FibroScan) in differentiating liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Patients who are scheduled to have a liver biopsy will also undergo ARFI and FibroScan testing. The liver biopsy will be used as the reference method. The target sample size is 433.

The purpose of this study is to determine if a 6-session motivational interviewing intervention is more effective than a 6-session educational intervention at reducing behaviors that may lead to infection, transmission, and progression of HIV and hepatitis C among out of treatment injecting drug users.