TY - JOUR T1 - Acute hepatitis C in HIV-negative men who have sex with men in the Netherlands and Belgium: a call for action JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 297 LP - 297 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053526 VL - 94 IS - 4 AU - Anne Boerekamps AU - Kristien Wouters AU - Heidi S M Ammerlaan AU - Hannelore M Götz AU - Marie Laga AU - Bart J A Rijnders Y1 - 2018/06/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/94/4/297.abstract N2 - The evidence that HIV treatment as prevention (TaSP) and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduce the risk of HIV transmission is overwhelming. The logical consequence of both interventions is that sexual mixing between HIV-positive and negative men who have sex with men (MSM) will increase. Hepatitis C (HCV) can be sexually transmitted in MSM and until recently was thought to be limited to HIV-infected MSM.However, from January 2016 to July 2017, through the Dutch Acute HCV in HIV Study (a Dutch-Belgian prospective multicentre study on the treatment of acute HCV, NCT02600325) and the Be-PrEP-ared study (a PrEP project in Antwerp, Eudra CT2015-000054-37), 10 … ER -