If you have been diagnosed with hepatitis C, treatments against the virus are available.

Treatments for hepatitis C are aimed at doing 3 things:

• removing (or clearing) all the hepatitis C virus from your body
• stopping or slowing down the damage to your liver
• making you feel better

Right now, several treatments for hepatitis C have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, including:

• short-acting (standard) or long-acting (pegylated) interferon by itself
• standard or pegylated interferon combined with another drug called ribavirin (combination therapy)

Interferon is a protein that your body makes to fight infections. Interferon used as a treatment increases the amount of interferon in your body. Ribavirin is a medicine that fights certain viruses.

You can read more about treatments for hepatitis C in the Treatment Decisions section.

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