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The following items have been posted to www.hcvadvocate.org and www.hbvadvocate.org – All the items listed below are on our front page:

**Easy C - A Guide to HIV and Hep C Coinfection is a simple guide that discusses HIV/HCV Coinfection and practical tips for staying healthy.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/easyfacts/Easy%20C%20Coinfection.pdf

**Patient Assistance Programs Fact Sheet provides contact information for HCV patient assistance programs that offer free drugs to those who qualify, as well as Roche’s and Schering’s programs to help with insurance reimbursement, 24 hour nurse on call and patient motivational tools for staying on treatment.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/factsheets_pdf/PAP.pdf

**Weekly News Review: Week Ending June 24th, 2006 – In this issue:

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/news/newsRev/2006/NewsRev-158.html

· Fatty Liver Drug Does Well in S.A. Study

· Appeal in Firing over Death Is Delayed

· Anger as Hepatitis Inquiry Ruled out Campaigners Furious after Health Minister Refuses Appeal

· First Ruling Near in Suit over Drug-Caused Hepatitis C Debacle

· Patients Treated with Baraclude Experience Virologic Suppression to Undetectable Levels

· Coley's Actilon for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Therapy Granted Fast Track Designation

· Vertex Initiates First of Two Phase 2 Studies of Oral Protease Inhibitor in HCV Patients

· Study Analysis Shows that Eltrombopag Significantly Improves Platelet Count and Response Rates in Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)

· Arctic Nations Team up to Fight Hepatitis B

· 120 Million Hepatitis B Virus rs in China Face Discrimination

· Hep C Patients' Insurance Scheme

· Tacrolimus a Primary Immunosuppressant post Liver Transplant

· Japanese State and Firm Blamed for Hepatitis C Infection

· Prisoners Have High Rates of Hepatitis C

· Alcohol Users with Hepatitis Often Untreated

· Caring Ambassadors Program Offering Free Hepatitis C Counseling and Screening at Portland Waterfront Blues Festival

· Hepatitis C Virus-Associated Diabetes May Involve Insulin Resistance

· Graphic Hepatitis C Ads Raise Ethical Qualms

· Poor Parents Sell Daughter

· Prison Health Costs Burst Yearly Budget: Lawmakers Grouse about the Funding

· Researchers Map Infectious Hepatitis B Virus

· Health Ministry Sweating after 'Double Blow' in Hepatitis Rulings

· Healey Says Addicts Shouldn’t be Able to Buy Needles

· Cycles of Cell Death, Proliferation Key to Liver Cancer

**Top Ten Downloads from the HCV Advocate Web site - Updated June 22

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/Top_Dwnloads.asp