Researchers explore the dangers of hepatitis B and HIV coinfection by Larry Buhl New research suggests people with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection have twice the risk of dying from liver-related diseases as people with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), including those coinfected with HIV. The research was part of the long-running Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) and presented at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in February in Boston. The study also found that the introduction of tenofovir (found in [...]