Intensive screening for hepatitis C, treatment and risk reduction counselling have led to sustained declines in hepatitis C prevalence and new cases of hepatitis C among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in the Swiss HIV Cohort, researchers report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The findings provide compelling evidence that so-called ‘micro-elimination’ efforts to diagnose and cure hepatitis C in specific groups with a high prevalence of the virus not only eliminate chronic infections but also limit new infections – and that this effect is sustained over several years.
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