All the news Showing 7 of 47 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Switching to tenofovir suppresses hepatitis B in HIV/HBV co-infected people Liz Highleyman / 20 September 2012 People with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection, who substituted tenofovir (Viread) for zidovudine (Retrovir) or abacavir (Ziagen) in their antiretroviral regimen, saw a reduction in hepatitis B viral load despite HBV ... Doctors in Europe and the US disagree over the pace of liver fibrosis in men co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C Michael Carter / 13 June 2012 Doctors in Europe and the US have conflicting opinions about the pace of liver fibrosis in HIV-positive men with hepatitis C infection. In a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, European investigators ... Chronic hepatitis B infection associated with twice the risk of liver-related death compared to hepatitis C Michael Carter / 27 April 2012 The risk of death due to liver disease is twice as high for patients with chronic hepatitis B infection compared to individuals with chronic hepatitis C, US researchers report in the online edition ... Co-infection with hepatitis B worsens HIV-related outcomes Michael Carter / 13 December 2011 Co-infection with hepatitis B virus increases the risk of AIDS or death for patients newly diagnosed with HIV, investigators from the US military report in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. ... Hepatitis B genotype B associated with poorer liver-related outcomes in Taiwanese patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B Michael Carter / 13 December 2011 Liver-related outcomes are poorer in HIV-positive patients who are co-infected with hepatitis B virus genotype B compared to co-infected patients with hepatitis B genotype C, Taiwanese investigators report in the online edition of ... Co-infection with hepatitis delta increases risk of death for patients with HIV and chronic hepatitis B Michael Carter / 05 September 2011 Infection with hepatitis delta virus is associated with an increased risk of death for HIV-positive patients with chronic hepatitis B infection, European research published in the online edition of AIDS shows. “In ... Accelerated HBV vaccination schedule an option for HIV patients if CD4 cell count is high Michael Carter / 30 March 2011 An accelerated hepatitis B vaccination schedule could be an option for HIV-positive patients with a high CD4 cell count, Dutch research published in the April 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious ... ← Prev12345Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive