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Title: People Who Inject Drugs Can Cure Hep C With Epclusa
Post by: Hep Editors on January 11, 2019, 10:12:35 am

People who inject drugs (PWID) can adhere well to hepatitis C virus (HCV) regimens, and in a recent study of Epclusa (sofosbuvir/velpatasvir), they were cured at a high rate, Medscape reports.

Presenting their findings at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in San Francisco (The Liver Meeting), researchers enrolled 100 PWID in a study of Epclusa. The participants were recruited at syringe services programs.

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