title: A SPECIAL MEETING REVIEW EDITION: Advances in the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection From the 2016 EASL Meeting: The Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver • April 13-17, 2016 • Barcelona, SpainSpecial Reporting on:• Six Weeks of Sofosbuvir/Ledipasvir (SOF/LDV) Are Sufficient to Treat Acute Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1 Monoinfection: The HepNet Acute HCV IV Study• Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus in Patients With Advanced Cirrhosis: Always Justified? Analysis of the HEPA-C Registry• High Efficacy of Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir Plus GS-9857 in Previously Treated Patients With HCV Genotypes 1 Through 6• Prevalence and Impact of Baseline Resistance-Associated Variants (RAVs) on the Efficacy of Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir or Simeprevir/Sofosbuvir Against GT1 HCV Infection: HCV-TARGET Interim Analysis• Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir for 12 Weeks in Patients Coinfected With HCV and HIV-1: The ASTRAL-5 Study• 100% SVR12 With ABT-493 and ABT-530 With or Without Ribavirin in Treatment-Naive HCV Genotype 3-Infected Patients With CirrhosisPLUS Meeting Abstract SummariesWith Expert Commentary by:Steven L. Flamm, MDChief, Liver Transplantation ProgramProfessor of Medicine and SurgeryNorthwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineChicago, Illinois.