title: Hepatitis C in HIV-infected individuals: cure and control, right now.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. dthomas@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leoutsakas
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zabransky
authors.forename: M Suresh
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents