hbv and alinia=very very good news

[stef2011]

good article about first hbv patients trying alinia over one year in mono tx and 1 patient in combo with adefovir

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670405/

mono-tx with the highest hbe and hbsag loss, no resistance, no sides.i think we should start to use it very soon in combo with antivirals since it looks the best medicine for hbv by far.
at the moment we don't have a tx with no sides and no resistance which leads to hbsag loss in a very high percentage and according to this article it is synergistic with nucs and interferon

alinia is already on the market FDA-approved treatment for Cryptosporidium

[stef2011]

it is a medicine that was invented and sold for Cryptosporidium diarrea for babies and it has been used also on aids patients.since there are many aids patients with multiple infections with hbv-hcv they noticed alinia was also effective on hbv in these patients.
it happened that one patient with hbv and no hiv in egypt had intestinal problems and took the medicine for a long time and he lost hbsag...it is now used on hvc since 2006 becuase it helps respond better to interferon+ribavirn+alinia on hcv non responders.the only strange thing is that big pharma delayed the use on hbv from 2005 (all this happened on 2005/2006 in egypt) and also results on hbv are superior than hcv by far.alinia is also effective against other viruses other than hbv-hvc

you can buy this medicine for Cryptosporidium on normal pharmacy or onlline pharmacies around the world, there is also a generic and the medicine is not expensive but the use for hbv would be off label.
i think that this could be tried by inactive carriers who has no benefits from antiviral/interferon tx but maybe they could benefit from alinia since it is active against hbsag and hbeag.
and it is should be also good for people with resistant strains to several antivirals since it works against all hbv resistant strains, if one is resistant to a lot of antivirals i guess the use of it should be very good.

it looks like there is no danger at all with the use of it but i would wait for furthur details, there should have been another trial on 2009 in combo and i would wait for those results.
anyway i have always thought about a strange behavior since 2005 because 5 years to try a medicine already on the market with no sides and no danger, it looks like tenofovir...researchers knew it was the most active since 2000 but they are using it only now and finding it has lower resistance than any other weak antiviral used until now (lam,adefovir and so on), this is very very strange....

[jasmbel]

what is alinia?where can we buy this?does mean theres a cure in hbv

[April9903]

Hi Stefano

It's a very very good news indeed! May be in 5 years time we could all have the very ver high chance of losing HBsAG. Just the thought alone makes me very very happy. Thanks for the info.

April