Leire Pérez-Latorre, Juan Berenguer, Rafael Micán, Marta Montero, Carmen Cifuentes, Teresa Puig, José Sanz, Oscar L Ferrero, Belén De La Fuente, Carmen Rodríguez, Sergio Reus, José Hernández-Quero, Gabriel Gaspar, Laura Pérez-Martínez, Coral García, Luis Force, Sergio Veloso, Marta De Miguel, Inmaculada Jarrín, Juan González-García
BackgroundRecent and reliable estimates on the prevalence of coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Europe are lacking.AimLeveraged on a study designed to assess HIV/HCV coinfection prevalence, we assessed the prevalence of HIV/HBV coinfection in Spain in 2018 and compared the results with five similar studies performed since 2002.MethodsThis cross-sectional prevalence study was carried out in 43 centres, and patients were selected using simple random sampling. The reference population comprised 40,322 patients and the sample size were 1,690 patients...
June 2021: Euro Surveillance