#KINutzen #Retröt
Ein Forscherteam hat mithilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz die #Proteinstrukturen der #Flaviviridae-#Virenfamilie untersucht, zu der u.a. #HepatitisC, #Zika und #Dengue gehören. Dadurch wurden neue Glykoproteine entdeckt, die entscheidend für das Eindringen der #Viren in #Wirtszellen sind. Besonders bei Hepatitis C wurden neue #Eintrittsmechanismen entschlüsselt, was die Entwicklung von #Impfstoffe​n erleichtern könnte.

#Virologie #Science

https://tino-eberl.de/nutzen-kuenstlicher-intelligenz/mit-ki-gegen-viren-wie-neue-technologien-die-impfstoffforschung-voranbringen/

*They do #charity work in several #GlobalSouth nations*

#MakeMedicinesAffordable (MMA) believes it is every person’s right to access the treatment they need, and that intellectual barriers (IP) preventing this must be removed.

MMA works to bring down the price of #HIV, #TB, #HepatitisC, and potential #COVID19 #medicines, specifically in middle-income countries (MICs). The majority of people living with HIV are from MICs. The income classification of these countries means they are routinely left out of schemes, yet are far from able to pay what monopoly holders demand. This forces countries to ration.

Extortionate price tags result in choices. The ‘choice’ to sell your house or go without meds, or a government’s ‘choice’ of which citizens to treat if you can’t treat them all.

No country should be forced to decide WHO to treat. They must treat EVERYONE.

The MMA campaign is led by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition #ITPC and partners, made up of civil society organizations from over 20 countries. They include patients, lawyers, #health experts and activists, all choosing, instead, to challenge the IP measures that benefit profit but not people.

https://makemedicinesaffordable.org/

Hola Titánicos, cada 1 de octubre se celebra el día mundial de la Hepatitis C, visibilizando esta enfermedad que afecta a más de 170 millones de personas en el mundo.

Quédate y descubre cómo afecta esta enfermedad.

https://somosdisca.es/dia-mundial-de-la-hepatitis-c-2024/

Hola Titánicos, cada 29 de julio se celebra el día mundial de la hepatitis, una inflamación del hígado cuando éste se lesionan o infecta.

Descubre como puede afectar a cada persona.

https://somosdisca.es/dia-mundial-contra-la-hepatitis-2024/

Hepatitis B und C – eine bleibende Herausforderung

Anlässlich des #WeltHepatitisTag am 28. Juli berichtet das aktuelle #EpidBull die epidemiologische Lage von #HepatitisB und #HepatitisC in Deutschland im Jahr 2023 im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren.

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Archiv/2024/29/Art_01.html

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#LosAngelesTimes
L.A.’s underground celebrates the life of punk iconoclast John Albert
“Running With the Devil," Albert's book of essays and stories on LA punk culture, will receive a grand, old-school book launch at Wacko Soap Plant on June 30.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-06-29/l-a-s-underground-celebrates-the-life-of-punk-iconoclast-john-albert

The inquiry into #taintedblood in the #UK has been published, identifying a catalouge of failures and cover-ups by doctors, the #NHS and successive governments
Sir Brian Langstaff, the inquiry chairman, says people "put their faith in doctors and in the government... and their trust was betrayed"
More than 30,000 people were infected with #HIV and #hepatitisC from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated products - about 3,000 have since died
https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/reports/inquiry-report

More than 3,000 people have #died in the UK after being #infected with #HIV and #hepatitisC in the 1970s and 1980s after receiving #transfusions or blood products from the #NHS.

This afternoon, #RishiSunak will #apologise to the #thousands of #victims of the #scandal which the Infected Blood Inquiry has found could and should have been avoided.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/infected-blood-scandal-report-official-inquiry-compensation-b1158918.html

Via the #BBC

About 1,750 people in the #UK are living with an undiagnosed #HepatitisC #infection after being given a #transfusion with #ContaminatedBlood, according to BBC analysis.

Official documents, seen by BBC News, reveal how the UK government and the #NHS failed to adequately trace those who were most at risk of having the #virus.

They show how officials slowed detection rates and even sought to kept public awareness of the virus low

#Health #Medicine #Science

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68978513

Hepatitis C viruses infect the liver, causing inflammation and, in the case of chronic infections, life-threatening liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. @KnowableMag recently chatted with virologist and 2020 Nobel Laureate Charles M. Rice about the remaining frontiers in fighting the virus.

Read the Q&A:
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/virologist-describes-discovery-hepatitis-c-virus?utm_source=annualreviews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=originals

Lea en español:
https://es.knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/conquistas-pendientes-lucha-hepatitis-c?utm_source=annualreviews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=originals

More in the Annual Review of Immunology:
https://arjournals.annualreviews.org/eprint/FUbzwCfu7DDEzqabQtyN/full/10.1146/annurev.immunol.25.022106.141602?utm_source=annualreviews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=originals

#KnowableMagazine
#HepatitisC
#HepC

#POTUS #JoeBiden has a foolproof plan to eliminate the nation’s deadliest blood borne disease, #HepatitisC from the USA using proven antiviral #chemistry. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-plan-eliminate-hepatitis-c_n_655e1590e4b0c0333bee58ac

But he has to get #BananaRepublicans in Congress to temporarily suspend their #antiscience platform first. That should be doable while propagandists in the #Kremlin are focused on #Ukraine and #Gaza.