Roughly 70 percent of people living with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection have undetectable HCV viral loads after 24 weeks of treatment with either Incivek (telaprevir) or Victrelis (boceprevir) plus pegylated interferon and ribavirin, according to interim results from two studies reported at two recent medical conferences.
Though final proof of the drugs’ effectiveness won’t be known until hepatitis C treatment is stopped and all coinfected people in the trials are followed for an additional six months, rates of undetectable viral loads among those using triple-drug treatment are currently 16 percent to 36 percent above those using only pegylated interferon and ribavirin.
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