Hepatitis C Incidence Rises among HIV+ Gay Men in Swiss Study
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- Category: Gay & Bisexual Men/MSM
- Published on Friday, 09 November 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Sexually transmitted hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has increased dramatically over the past 13 years among gay and bisexual men in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, even as it remained stable among heterosexuals and decreased among injection drug users, investigators reported in the November 2012 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Prenatal HBV Screening Helps Babies More than Moms
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- Category: Pregnancy & HCV MTCT
- Published on Friday, 13 May 2011 07:59
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Routine screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) during pregnancy enables most infants to be protected against infection, but underserved mothers often do not receive education about or care for their own infection, researchers reported this week at DDW 2011.
Viral Load, HIV Status, but not IL28B Predict Perinatal HCV Transmission
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- Category: Pregnancy & HCV MTCT
- Published on Friday, 29 April 2011 00:03
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Women with higher HCV viral load and those coinfected with HIV were more likely to transmit HCV to their babies in a recent Spanish study. IL28B gene pattern did not affect transmission directly, but babies with the favorable CC pattern more often spontaneously cleared HCV.
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