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Research Leads to Guidelines on How To Treat Patients with HCV and HIV

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 18th, 2000

The more than 300,000 Americans infected with the potentially deadly combination of HIV and hepatitis C.

HCV has become a leading cause of death in HIV patients, but researchers unveiled new solutions during the 2000 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) meeting, held September 7-10, 2000, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Hepatitis Resource Network (HRN) held a pre-IDSA symposium on September 7, 2000, titled "Issues and Controversies in Hepatitis C and HIV/HCV Co-infection."

During a presentation at IDSA on September 8, Douglas Dieterich, MD, Cabrini Medical Center and HRN president, presented the results of a new clinical...

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