Science & Healthcare

Introduction. At present, an infection caused by the hepatitis C virus is common among HIV-infected patients. The rapid growth of drug addiction, sexual path of infection, affected by HIV and HCV young people, low efficiency of treatment and lack of specific means of prevention put this pathology to one of the first places in the modern infectology.

Aim of research: to study features of chronic viral hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients, depending on the tract infection.

Methods. Design of Study: open, non-randomized, prospective. A total of 58 HIV-infected patients with chronic viral hepatitis C who were in the dispensary at Karaganda Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS. The diagnosis of HIV infection was verified by immune blotting. Etiological hepatitis verification was performed by enzyme immunoassay and PCR.

Results. We present the clinical and laboratory results of HIV-infected patients with chronic viral hepatitis C, depending on the tract infection. Patients infected with sexually transmitted disease is asymptomatic. Among injecting drug users was more showed clinical symptoms and moderate level of activity of the infectious process.

Conclusion. These clinical and laboratory findings suggest that the characteristics of the course of chronic viral hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients depends on the tract infection.