Can hepatitis C affect the accuracy of HIV tests?

The answer is “No”, hepatitis C is not known to affect the accuracy of HIV tests. This question came up back on 9/18/2011 in another forum.[1] Dr. H. read more

However, back in the day when people were presenting to health professionals at a later stage of HIV, and therefore their immune systems were more suppressed (i.e., lower CD4+ helper T-cell counts), there were reports of false negative hepatitis C tests in newly identified patients with HIV. read more

Hepatitis c is rarely passed from sexual activities and not found in semen, pre-cum or vaginal fluids. Living with hepatitis a, b or c will not block, alter or delay an HIV test. Treatment for hepatitis c may delay an HIV test. Hepatitis c is usually detected at 10 weeks, post exposure. read more

Some medications used to treat HIV and hepatitis C cannot be used together, so your clinicians will select your medications carefully. With the current generation of hepatitis C drugs, the chance of curing hepatitis C is very high. read more