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Cochrane Review of Pegylated Interferon plus Ribavirin for Hepatitis C Treatment in People with HIV

Pegylated interferon (Pegasys or PegIntron) plus ribavirin is an appropriate standard of care for HIV-HCV coinfected patients, with sustained virological response rates of 26% for hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes 1 or 4 and 57% for genotyes 2 or 3, according to a meta-analysis by the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group published in the September 2009 American Journal of Gastroenterology.

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