BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is quickly spread through injection drug use. The prevalence and incidence of HCV in Chinese heroin users has been rarely reported. METHODS A longitudinal cohort of young injection drug users (IDU) from southern China was established to study the risk factors for blood-borne infections (597 subjects). Individuals underwent analysis for the presence of hepati...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with HIV infection in blood donor candidates in Recife, Brazil. METHODS A transversal study was performed of 106,203 blood donor candidates found eligible by the routine clinical screening process in the blood bank in Recife of the Fundação de Hematologia e Hemoterapia de Pernambuco (HEMOPE) in the period from January 1998 to November 2003. Additional...

BACKGROUND In most West African countries, the distribution and risk factors for co-infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is unknown despite the current HIV epidemic and evidence of increasing prevalence of HCV in the region. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the distribution and the risk factors for the transmission of co-infection between HIV and...

Background. Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and syphilis are among the greatest threats to blood safety for the recipient and pose a serious public health problem. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis infections among blood...

BACKGROUND Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and syphilis are among the greatest threats to blood safety for the recipient. This study aimed to determine the seroprevalence, risk factors and trends of HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis infections among blood donors over a period of five years at Gonda...

The natural history of HIV infection has been dramatically changed by the highly active antiretroviral therapies, reducing complications, morbidity and mortality of the disease. Approximately 25% of persons infected with HIV are co-infected with hepatitis C, and some high risk populations have a prevalence of HCV of more than 75%. Liver disease has become one of the principal causes of morbidit...

conclusions the majority of hiv-infected persons in the city of kashan were also hcv positive. genotype 1 was the predominant type, alongside subtype a. considering the high prevalence of hcv among the hiv-infected persons, as well as the impact of occupation, education, illicit drug use, and imprisonment on the incidence of both infections, health policy makers must introduce health programs a...