Hepatitis B doesn’t affect response to HIV treatment

Co-infection with hepatitis B seems not to affect your response to HIV treatment. Nor does it influence your CD4 cell count after you start, American investigators report.

They also found no evidence that people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B taking antiretrovirals [1]A medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV. had any increased risk of dying of an AIDS-defining illness. However, they note that an increased risk of liver [2]A large organ, located in the upper right abdomen, which assists in digestion by metabolising carbohydrates, fats and proteins, stores vitamins and minerals, produces amino acids, bile and cholesterol, and removes toxins from the blood. - or cardio-related death existed for some chronically infected individuals, and suggest that research should be devoted to the development of anti-hepatitis B therapies that offer durable suppression of the virus [3]A small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell..