Data shows that a disproportionate number of people who contract monkeypox are also HIV positive. Researchers are trying to figure out exactly why. Here are their 3 hypotheses.
have reported – their data show that around 37-45% of reported cases have been identified in people living with HIV.
But that alone doesn't explain the high rate, says Brooks. In the U.S., for example, 23% of men who have sex with men are estimated to be living with HIV – but among the 2,000 monkeypox patients whose data was analyzed in the study, 38% had HIV."This fraction of [monkeypox cases in people with] HIV"is pretty extraordinary," he says.What's likely the biggest contributing factor, say the researchers, has to do with sexual networks.
"You only have to have sex, or be sexually active, with one person to get monkeypox," Thompson says, but the risk of getting monkeypox is currently magnified in the population of men who have sex with men, where more monkeypox is circulating than in the general population.had a recent history Many of the monkeypox patients with HIV patients with monkeypox in the CDC study have well-controlled infections – most had received HIV treatment in the past year and 82% were virally suppressed, meaning they had low to no detectable levels of HIV in their blood. That leads, leading to Titanji to wonder whether there's an elevated risk for HIV patients in general and not just those that aren't receiving treatments.
"This is the group of care providers who initially were willing to take care of people with HIV," says Thompson,"Whereas many providers, unfortunately, have been unwilling to see people with monkeypox, that seems not to be the case among HIV care providers. And so we see in this report that a very high proportion of people with HIV are actually linked to care," which may mean they're able to get tested and treated at the first sign of a suspicious rash.
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