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General Reports
       
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Risk of Hepatitis-Related Mortality Increased Among Hepatitis C Virus/HIV-Coinfected
Drug Users Compared With Drug Users Infected Only With Hepatitis C Virus: A 20-Year
Prospective Study.
 Smit C, van den Berg C, Geskus R, et al 
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007 Nov 1;
 Abstract
 
The Association of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection with Spontaneously Resolved
Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Level of Viremia Among Injection Drug Users.
Seal KH, Monto A, Dove L, et al
Dig Dis Sci. 2007 Apr 19;
 Abstract
 
Impact of hepatitis C infection on long-term mortality of injecting drug users from 1990 to 2002:
differences before and after HAART.
Lumbreras B, Jarrin I, Del Amo J, et al
AIDS. 2006 Jan 2;20(1):111-116.
 Abstract
 
A framework for understanding factors that affect access and utilization of treatment for
hepatitis C virus infection among HCV-mono-infected and HIV/HCV-co-infected injection
drug users.
 Mehta SH, Thomas DL, Sulkowski MS, et al 
AIDS. 2005 Oct;19 Suppl 3:S179-S189.
Abstract
 
HIV/hepatitis C virus co-infection in drug users: risk behavior and prevention.
 Hagan H, Thiede H, Des Jarlais DC. et al 
AIDS. 2005 Oct;19 Suppl 3:S199-S207.
Abstract

Delivering Care to Injection Drug Users Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus.
 Taylor LE.   
Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Apr 15;40 Suppl 5:S355-61.
 Abstract

Survival in HIV-infected patients is associated with hepatitis C virus infection and
injecting drug use since the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy in the Lyon
observational database.
Voirin N, Trepo C, Miailhes P, et al  J
Viral Hepat. 2004 Nov;11(6):559
 Abstract
 
The Future Face of Coinfection: Prevalence and Incidence of HIV and Hepatitis C Virus
Coinfection Among Young Injection Drug Users.
Miller CL, Wood E, Spittal PM, et al.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Jun 1;36(2):743-749.
Abstract
 
Hepatitis C and HIV Infections: Implications for Clinical Care in Injection Drug Users.
Sullivan LE, Fiellin DA.et al 
Am J Addict. 2004 Jan-Feb;13(1):1-20.
 Abstract

Increased Hepatitis C Virus Load among Injection Drug Users Infected with Human
Immunodeficiency Virus and Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type II.
Hisada M, Chatterjee N, Zhang M, et al  
J Infect Dis. 2003 Sep 15;188(6):891-7.
Abstract
 
          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Hepatitis C Related Liver Fibrosis Progression among HIV+ and HIV– Injection
Drug Users
 L Wilson, M Torbenson, J Astemborski, et al
 (11 CROI)
 Abstract
Epidemiology
       
Asia
 
China
 
        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters  
 
  Comparison between HIV/HCV co-infection and HCV mono-infection in a cohort of
heroin users in Liuzhou, China
Tan Y, Lee SS, Chen LJ, et al
 (4th IAS Conference]
 Abstract
 
Europe
 
     Regional/Multinational

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  FULL TEXT ARTICLE
Factors associated with reported hepatitis C and HIV among injecting drug users in ten
European cities.
 March JC, Oviedo-Joekes E, Romero M.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2007 Feb;25(2):91-97.
 Paper
 
Latin America/Caribbean
 
Brazil
 
        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters  
 
  Knowledge and seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among injectable drug users with
HIV/AIDS in the the municipality of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Z P Pra-Baldi, A M Marchesini, F Mesquita,  et al
 (15IAC)
 Abstract


Puerto Rico

           Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

 

HIV and HCV co-infection among street-recruited injection drug users
in San Juan, Puerto Rico
J C Reyes, R R Robles, H M Colon
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
Diagnostics/Monitoring
       

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 

HCV genotype analysis in HCV-HIV-co-infected Puerto Ricans who are injecting drug
users: undetermined and mixed infections.
Rios-Olivares E, Yamamura Y, Gomez MA, et al.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2001Sep;47(6):1017-24
 Abstract
Prevention
       

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
HIV/hepatitis C virus co-infection in drug users: risk behavior and prevention.
 Hagan H, Thiede H, Des Jarlais DC. et al 
AIDS. 2005 Oct;19 Suppl 3:S199-S207.
Abstract

Reductions in hepatitis C virus and HIV infections among injecting drug users in New
York City, 1990-2001.
 Des Jarlais DC, Perlis T, Arasteh K, et al 
AIDS. 2005 Oct;19 Suppl 3:S20-5.
 Abstract
Treatment
       

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Differences in access to care among injection drug users infected either with HIV and
hepatitis C or hepatitis C alone.
Braitstein P, Li K, Kerr T, Montaner JS, et al 
AIDS Care. 2006 Oct;18(7):690-3
 Abstract
 
Failure of Hepatitis C Therapy in HIV-Coinfected Drug Users Is Not Due to a Shift in
Hepatitis C Virus Genotype.
Soriano V, Ramos B, Nunez M ,et al  
J Infect Dis. 2005 Oct 1;192(7):1245-8
 Abstract
 
Factors Associated With Successful Referral For Clinical Care of Drug Users With
Chronic Hepatitis C Who Have or Are At Risk For HIV Infection.
 Fishbein DA, Lo Y, Reinus JF, et al  
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Nov 1;37(3):1367-1375.
 Abstract

Treating hepatitis C in methadone maintenance patients: an interim analysis.
Sylvestre DL.
Drug Alcohol Depend 2002 Jul 1;67(2):117-23
 Abstract

  
     
  The influence of human immunodeficiency virus coinfection on chronic hepatitis C
in injection drug users: a long-term retrospective cohort study.
Di Martino V, Rufat P, Boyer N, et al. 
Hepatology 2001 Dec;34(6):1193-9
 Abstract		  
Adherence
       

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Antiretroviral adherence and HIV treatment outcomes among HIV/HCV co-infected injection drug
users: The role of methadone maintenance therapy.
Palepu A, Tyndall MW, Joy R, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 Mar 14;
Abstract

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