{"id":2198,"date":"2010-06-23T11:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2020-07-25T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T13:24:05","slug":"is-treatment-difficult-for-hepatitis-c-if-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2198","title":{"rendered":"Is treatment difficult for hepatitis C if I am HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, please don\u2019t worry. In the UK around 5% of HIV positive people are co-infected with hepatitis C. Generally co-infection can complicate things but it is manageable.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 20% of HIV positive people with hepatitis C clear the infection without treatment within the first few months. Some treatment for hepatitis C interfere with HIV treatments. Some people find they get on well with treatments whilst others find them difficult to take. As with HIV treatment, hepatitis C drugs are very individual. For more information about hepatitis C treatment and management please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/hepc\/treatment-and-management\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is new research has discovered that the likelihood of responding to treatment can be predicted based on someone\u2019s DNA. For more information about this please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/10497\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is no vaccine against hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is transmitted in the same way as HIV and so modes of protection are similar for both infections.<\/p>\n<p>For more general information on co-infection with HIV and hepatitis C please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/hepc\">link<\/a> to the i-Base booklet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been informed that my ex-partner is hepatitis C positive! We are both HIV positive. I\u2019m going to my clinic to get tested in two weeks but am very worried about this!<\/p>\n<p>If an HIV positive person becomes hepatitis C positive, I\u2019ve heard that treatment is difficult for both the HIV and the hepatitis C. Can you tell me if that\u2019s true as I am going out of my mind with worry but the clinic cant see me sooner as the consultant is on holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Also now that I know this how does someone protect themselves from contracting hepatitis C? Is there a vaccination available?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Guys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}