Open AccessHepatitis C in HIV‐infected individuals: cure and control, right now
Author(s) -
Thomas David L,
Leoutsakas Dennis,
Zabransky Tomas,
Kumar M Suresh
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of the international aids society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.724
H-Index - 62
ISSN - 1758-2652
DOI - 10.1186/1758-2652-14-22
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c , psychosocial , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , hepatitis c virus , public health , antiretroviral therapy , disease , immunology , viral hepatitis , hepatitis , virology , intensive care medicine , viral load , virus , psychiatry , pathology
For persons living with HIV, hepatitis C is a major public health problem that must be controlled and could be eliminated. The challenge arises because the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is prevalent among HIV‐infected persons in most parts of the world, because HIV worsens all HCV outcomes, and because HCV may add additional individual economic and psychosocial complications to HIV disease. Despite the major benefits of antiretroviral therapy on HIV outcomes, antiretroviral therapy is not sufficient to halt the complications of HCV. Nonetheless, HCV can be controlled at all stages, including prevention of infection and cure. Thus, HCV is an eradicable disease. There are significant inequalities worldwide in HCV control that could markedly constrain the impact of these measures.