HCV treatment and management

One approach to managing HCV is to decide first what your priority is. Clearing the virus is the most important goal for many people but not for everyone. In some cases, treatment may be more likely to improve the condition of your liver than to clear the virus. In other cases, treatment may not be necessary right away, or ever.

For some people, deciding whether to start HCV treatment is an easy decision. For most, it isn’t. There are a lot of factors to be considered.

This section focuses on conventional HCV treatment with the current standard of care, which is a combination of pegylated interferon and ribavirin.

Lifestyle-related choices that help your liver are covered later in the section Living with coinfection.