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HIV-related immunodeficiency has complex effects on female genital HPV, which include increased risks of infection, multiple types, persistence, reactivation and the risk to develop pre-invasive and invasive disease.
Inform patients with HIV about the risk of acquiring HPV and other STIs from close physical contact with the external genitalia, anus, cervix, vagina, urethra, mouth and oral cavity, or any other location where HPV lesions are present.
HIV and HPV coinfection is common among people living with HIV (PLWH) but disproportionally affects men who have sex with men (MSM) for whom the rate of persistent HPV infection and reinfection is noteworthy.
16 sty 2023 · Some women remain at high risk for developing vaginal and anal cancer. The risk of malignant transformation is highest in immunocompromised individuals. Finally, when a patient has been diagnosed with HPV infection, there is a 5-20% risk of having other STDs like gonorrhea and/or chlamydia.
9 lip 2024 · HPV infection is the major risk factor for development of cervical cancer, 5,21 the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide. 22 Nearly all cervical cancers contain oncogenic HPV DNA sequences. 23-25 While HPV is a common sexually transmitted cervical infection, most of these infections resolve spontaneously. 26-30 Cervical tumorigenesis occ...
9 lut 2022 · The ability of HPV to establish a chronic infection within the genital mucosal epithelium has implications on HIV acquisition risk and prevention strategies, and remains an area of active research, in particular with novel therapeutic vaccines reaching trial stages in 2021 (Ayesha et al., 2021).
The increasing prevalence of HIV increases the risk that health-care workers will be exposed to blood from patients infected with HIV, especially when blood and body-fluid precautions are not followed for all patients.
