{"id":19206,"date":"2019-02-15T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19206"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:40:03","slug":"what-is-hiv-and-hcv-co-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/what-is-hiv-and-hcv-co-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"What is HIV and HCV co-infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" title=\"What is HIV and HCV co-infection?\" src=\"https:\/\/st1.thehealthsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hepatities-unsterlized-needles-hindi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People who inject drugs are more at risk of being infected with HCV \u00a9Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehealthsite.com\/hivaids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehealthsite.com\/hepatitis-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)<\/a> co-infection refers to the condition where a person is infected with both viruses at the same time. Both HIV and HCV are blood-borne pathogens and have common routes of transmission through blood and blood products. Hepatitis C is a disease of the\u00a0liver caused by HCV that can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis C, ranging in severity from a mild illness, lasting a few weeks to a serious life-threatening illness, such as liver cancer, if not treated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehealthsite.com\/diseases-conditions\/what-is-hiv-and-hcv-co-infection\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) co-infection refers to the condition where a person is infected with both viruses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}