Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection Among MSM With HIV

In this podcast, Daniel S. Fierer, MD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about his research on the sexual transmission, and retransmission, of hepatitis C virus among HIV-infected men who have sex with men. This was also a topic he presented at CROI 2019.

Daniel S. Fierer, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in the infectious disease department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York.

Additional Resources:

• Fierer DS. HCV reinfection among HIV-infected MSM in New York City. Presented at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2019; March 4-7, 2019; Seattle, WA. http://www.croiwebcasts.org/console/player/41186?mediaType=slideVideo&&crd_fl=0&ssmsrq=1556304290696. Accessed May 10, 2019.
• Newsum AM, Stolte IG, van der Meer JTM, et al; the MOSAIC (MSM Observational Study of Acute Infection with hepatitis C) study group. Development and validation of the HCV-MOSAIC risk score to assist testing for acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM). Eurosurveillance. 2017;22(21). https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.21.30540.