Hepatitis C Treatment New Zealand District Health Boards
Ive been busy chasing District Health Boards to reply to our Hepatitis C treatment questions, Only three of the twenty one district health boards are yet to produce a reply and only one has ignored the request.
Treatment Outcomes and Terminology
There has been a bit of a discussion on the forums lately about monitoring treatment and the terminology
• Rapid Viral Response: viral clearance at week four of treatment.
• Early Viral Response (complete): viral clearance at week 12 of treatment.
• Early Viral Response (partial): Significant drop in viral load at week 12 of treatment, ie. two log drop in viral load, eg. from 60,000 down to 600.
• Non-Response: no significant drop in viral load after twelve weeks of treatment. This means you probably won’t be cured.
• End-of-Treatment Response: whether or not the virus is detectable in your blood at the end of treatment (either six months or twelve months). This is good but it
doesn’t mean you are cured.
• Sustained Viral Response: viral clearance as proved by a negative PCR result six months or more after treatment finishes. This is the result that people hope
for and is what doctors refer to when someone is successfully cured
http://www.hepc.org.au/documents/2009WYNTKweb-2MB.pdf
this info is from the new hep c council of NSW website http://www.hepc.org.au/index.php?article=content/home
well worth a look.
Some Hepatitis C related video’s this blog
First up Teenager Jazzy was born with hepatitis C. This is her video diary about living with the condition
Produced and directed by Jazzy De Lisser “I will try treatment again”
A series of informative videos from Nicole Cutler describes the various methods by which Hepatitis C is transmitted. www.hepatitis-central.com
Transmission
I have been watching MusicKey ‘s hepatitis C treatment Journey for a while now , GO MUSIC KEY beat the virus
Another hepatitis C treatment video blog here
lots of encouragement to anyone on treatment and those contemplating it
best of health