Abstract
Background The number of people infected due to intravenous drug use remains at a level of 50% so far, despite the HIV sexual transmission rate increasing. Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection is currently one of the most clinically relevant co-morbidities (>80%) in the population of HIV-positive drug-users. Due to the wide use of HAART and prevention of opportunistic diseases, life expectancy of HIV-infected individuals has increased and chronic viral hepatitis has become one of the principal causes of death side-by-side with tuberculosis. We started HCV treatment in 2007. Prior to treatment, all HCV co-infected patients required an HCV genotype testing.
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The number of people infected due to intravenous drug use remains at a level of 50% so far, despite the HIV sexual transmission rate increasing
Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf
Our findings have potential implications for appropriate patient selection for HCV treatment, as individuals carrying this genotype are more likely to respond to therapy
Summary
Address: Regional AIDS Center, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation * Corresponding author from Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Glasgow, UK. 9–13 November 2008. Address: Regional AIDS Center, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation * Corresponding author from Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Glasgow, UK. Published: 10 November 2008 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008, 11(Suppl 1):P285 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-S1-P285. Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf
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