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Drug interactions

DAAs and ART

HCV drugs can be used with many HIV meds but there are a few important potential interactions.

As DAAs only require a short course of treatment, any potential drug interactions are easy to avoid by changing ART during HCV treatment.

DAAs and other meds

Your doctor needs to check for interactions with any other drugs that you take.

This includes prescribed or over-the-counter meds, together with any supplements, herbal remedies and recreational or street drugs.

The online HCV drug interaction database from Liverpool University is free and easy to use.
www.hep-druginteractions.org

This site includes interaction charts that use a traffic light summary:

  • Red when drugs should never be used together.
  • Amber for a caution or when additional monitoring is needed.
  • Green when no interaction is likely. 

Details on each interaction and reports can be printed for any combination.

Last updated: 1 November 2024.