One in two people with HIV and hepatitis B with a history of injecting drug use had coinfection with hepatitis delta, a virus that depends on hepatitis B to replicate and leads to far worse liver disease outcomes, an analysis of people living with HIV in Europe has found.
Hepatitis delta levels in other groups of people with HIV matched those in the general population, the study reported. The findings are published in the journal HIV Medicine.
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