ribavirin

Costs | Medicines for hepatitis C

Costs Agents that end in -buvir have been available in Germany since 2014, whereby one tablet costs around €488. This corresponds to therapy costs of 43. 500€ for a person over 12 weeks. A pack for a four-week therapy with the drug Simeprevir costs about 9. 360€. Therapy with new drugs that end on -asvir, … Costs | Medicines for hepatitis C

Ribavirin: Effects, Uses & Risks

Hardly anyone doubts that hepatitis C (170 million infected worldwide) and HIV (40 million infected) are global problems. Both viral infections have in common that no complete cure is possible, but only a mitigation or suppression of the course of the disease. Here, among other things, the virus-inhibiting agent ribavirin plays an important role. What … Ribavirin: Effects, Uses & Risks