Rongrong Yang, Rui Yuan, Xien Gui, Hengning Ke, Ke Zhuang, Hui Hu, Ling Li, Ling Feng, Xingxia Yu, Yajun Yan, Mingqi Luo
BACKGROUND: The burden of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and syphilis coinfections remains disproportionately high among people living with HIV/AIDS. Hubei province is located in central China, where there are distinct regional characteristics of the distribution of people living with HIV/AIDS acquired via diverse transmission routes and the AIDS epidemic itself. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to estimate the magnitude of HBV, HCV, or syphilis coinfections among people living with HIV/AIDS with blood-borne transmission, which includes former paid blood donors, contaminated blood recipients, and intravenous drug users, as well as among people with sex-borne HIV transmission (including heterosexual people and men who have sex with men) and people with mother-to-child HIV transmission...
February 27, 2024: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance