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WHO: Over 1 million treated with "highly effective" hepatitis C drugs
28.10.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Over a million people in low and middle-income countries have been treated with «highly effective» new drugs for the disease hepatitis C, UN Radio says referring to the WHO (UN World Health Organization) yesterday report detailing results of a two-year-old programme involving new drugs known as Direct Acting Antivirals, or DAAs.
As to the report, many of the chronic sufferers treated with DAAs have been completely cured.
It is to be admitted, Hepatitis C is a virus that attacks the liver, which can remain in the body indefinitely unless treated.
Around 700,000 people die each year from the disease globally, and there are an estimated 80 million sufferers; ten million in China alone.
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