Brendan L Harney, Rachel Sacks-Davis, Paul Agius, Daniela K van Santen, Michael W Traeger, Anna L Wilkinson, Jason Asselin, Christopher K Fairley, Norman Roth, Mark Bloch, Gail V Matthews, Basil Donovan, Rebecca Guy, Mark Stoové, Margaret E Hellard, Joseph S Doyle
BACKGROUND: In Australia, the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has declined among gay and bisexual men (GBM) with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) since 2015 and is low among GBM using HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, ongoing HCV testing and treatment remains necessary to sustain this. To assess the potential utility of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) to inform HCV testing among GBM with HIV and GBM using PrEP, we examined the association between bacterial STI diagnoses and subsequent primary HCV infection...
April 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases