I do not know a great deal about Genotype 3 and the treatmen of Genotype 3, but I did find a good article on Genotype 3 treatment.It is worth copying the link and reading the entire article.
I copied and pasted 2 paragraphs from a recent article on treating Genotype 3.
"Treatment of patients with genotype 3 chronic hepatitis C- current and future therapies" 29 DEC 2011
"Genotype 3 is a common type of HCV infection, and standard therapy using pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) is quite effective in these patients. While a short course of 16 weeks may result in comparable end of therapy responses, relapse rates are often high. A 24-week course is therefore preferable, and is expected to result in sustained virological response (SVR) rates of more than 70%. The 24-week course is especially recommended in the presence of steatosis (often associated with Genotype 3 infection), fibrosis stage two or more, high BMI and high viral load. In patients who do not achieve a rapid viral response (RVR) with combination therapy, an extended course up to 48 weeks should be considered. "
"According to the recent AASLD guidelines [15], PEG-IFN -2b (1.5 μg/kg/week) plus RBV (800–1400 mg/day) or PEG-IFN -2a (180 μg/week) plus RBV (800 mg/day) for 24 weeks are the established SOC regimens for patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 2 or 3. However, optimal administration of PEG-IFN/RBV, in particular, the duration and the dosage have still not been clearly established in relation to outcome in rapid and slow responders. Based on the concept of ‘response guided treatment,’a recent meta-analysis evaluated the issue of decreasing the duration of treatment to improve tolerance and cost effectiveness, and most importantly to decrease viral resistance to the standard bitherapy [16]. Treatment with PEG-IFN and weight-based RBV for 16 weeks in patients a with rapid virological response (RVR) resulted in an SVR of 76.3% and 86.4% with 24 weeks of treatment, unlike genotype 2 which was 83.8% and 89.3% respectively. This was because of increased relapse rates in patients with genotype 3. "
http://hepatitiscnewdrugs.blogspot.com/2012/01/treatment-of-patients-with-genotype-3.html
I hope this helps a little. I wish I knew more about Genotype 3 and its treatment, but I don't, so I will give you the link. As far as I know the Interferon and Ribavirin are the two drugs used to treat Genotype 3. As far as I know, the new protease inhibitors are not generally being used to treat Genotype 3.
Hopefully someone who knows more about Genotype 3 and its treatment will respond.
I wish you and your daughter the best and hope she can clear the virus.
actually it is my daughter who is HCV positive. She has 3 a genotype.
Which Genotype do you have? The treatments are different depending on your Genotype.