HIV/AIDS Co-Infection Risk Factors

Data on HIV/AIDS co-infection risk factors reported by investigators at Institute for Health Research

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 30th, 2007

Scientists discuss in "Hepatotoxicity in an African antiretroviral therapy cohort: the effect of tuberculosis and hepatitis B" new findings in HIV/AIDS co-infection. "Hepatotoxicity is a significant complication of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We assessed the incidence of and risk factors for hepatotoxicity among HIV-infected individuals on ART in South Africa," scientists in Johannesburg, South Africa report.

"We conducted a retrospective cohort study in a workplace HIV care program in South Africa which uses a first-line regimen of efavirenz, zidovudine, and lamivudine and provides routine clinical and laboratory monitoring. We included subjects with baseline and...

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