London data shows that hepatitis C is passed on during [sexual activity]

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aidsmap/nam, 10 April 2017

Around one in five HIV-positive gay men who recently acquired hepatitis C report anal sex without a condom as the only behaviour that could explain their infection. At the same time, a third of people acquiring hepatitis C were gay men who did not have HIV, clinicians from the Mortimer Market Centre in London told the British HIV Association conference in Liverpool last week.

The data suggest that prevention messages around sexually transmitted hepatitis C need to change.

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By J Pope

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