Hepatitis C co-infection

Studies have yielded conflicting results on the effect of hepatitis C/HIV co-infection on lipodystrophy. Earlier studies had found that co-infection was a risk factor for lipodystrophy. 1 2 However, an analysis of 1183 HIV-positive participants in the FRAM study did not find co-infection to be a risk factor for body fat changes; in fact, co-infected men had more leg fat and tended to lose it more slowly than HIV-positive men without HCV infection; co-infected women had more visceral fat than women without HCV. 3

References

  1. Duong M et al. Association between insulin resistance and hepatitis C virus chronic infection in HIV-hepatitis C virus-coinfected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 27: 245-250, 2001
  2. Galli M et al. Body habitus changes and metabolic alterations in protease inhibitor-naïve HIV-1 infected patients treated with two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 29: 21-31, 2002
  3. Tien PC et al. Association between hepatitis C virus coinfection and regional adipose tissue volume in HIV-infected men and women. Immune Defic Syndr 45:60-65, 2007
Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

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We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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