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BHIVA 2017: London Data Shows Hepatitis C Is Transmitted During Anal Sex Without Condoms
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- Category: Gay & Bisexual Men/MSM
- Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
Around 1 in 5 HIV-positive gay men who recently acquired hepatitis C virus (HCV) report anal sex without a condom as the only behavior that could explain their infection. At the same time, a third of people acquiring HCV were gay men who did not have HIV, clinicians from the Mortimer Market Centre in London reported at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week in Liverpool. The data suggest that prevention messages around sexually transmitted hepatitis C need to change.
CROI 2017: New HCV Infections Among HIV+ Gay Men Drop By Half After DAA Roll-Out in Netherlands
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- Category: HCV Sexual Transmission
- Published on Friday, 17 February 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A little more than a year after the Netherlands instituted a policy allowing unrestricted access to direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for the hepatitis C treatment, researchers have already seen a dramatic decline in acute HCV infections among one at-risk population, HIV-positive men who have sex with men, according to findings reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections this week in Seattle.
Studies Shed Light on Hepatitis C Virus Sexual Transmission among Gay Men
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- Category: HCV Sexual Transmission
- Published on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission among HIV positive gay men has leveled off in Amsterdam -- one of the first cities with an outbreak of apparently sexually transmitted HCV infection -- and it continues to be rare among HIV negative men who have sex with men, according to recent studies. Other research looked at HCV sexual transmission among HIV positive and negative men in Switzerland, and at the association between HCV viral load in blood and semen.
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- Danish Study Looks at Hepatitis C Sexual Transmission among HIV Positive Gay Men
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- CROI 2007: HCV May Be Sexually Transmitted in HIV Negative as Well as HIV Positive Men
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