Can Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment as Prevention Reverse the HCV Epidemic Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United Kingdom? Epidemiological and Modeling Insights

K. Martin, Natasha; Thornton, Alicia; Hickman, Matthew; Sabin, Caroline; Nelson, Mark; Cooke, Graham; Martin, Thomas; Delpech, Valérie; Ruf, Murad; Price, Huw; Azad, Yusef; C. Thomson, Emma; Vickerman, Peter

doi:10.1093/cid/ciw075

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Can Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment as Prevention Reverse the HCV Epidemic Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United Kingdom? Epidemiological and Modeling Insights

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Feb 16, 2016

Authors:

Natasha K. Martin

Alicia Thornton

Matthew Hickman

Abstract

BACKGROUND: We report on the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United Kingdom and model its trajectory with or without scaled-up HCV direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). METHODS: A dynamic HCV transmission model amon...

Subject

Men who have sex with men

Virology

Hepatitis C virus

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