In a cohort of men who have sex with men, most of whom were living with
HIV, those who were coinfected with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) were
twice as likely to die of liver disease compared with those chronically
infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to a new report published online ahead of print by Clinical Infectious Diseases.
“This
study emphasizes the need for a more aggressive approach to the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of [chronic HBV infection],
including increasing vaccination rates among all [hep B] susceptible
individuals,” writes Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia, MD, of Johns Hopkins
University and her Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) colleagues.
“This is especially true in Asian and African countries where there is a
high prevalence of [chronic HBV], HIV infection and HIV/HBV
coinfection.”
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