Haemophilia patients with HIV- and HCV-infection

SummaryAt present (2010), we investigate in a long term study on psychosocial aspects of haemophilia at the Munich Haemophilia Centre factors which could be held responsible for the large number of still living HIV+ patients while many patients died from AIDS or from diseases caused by HCV during the 1990ies. Patients, methods We retrospectively compare medical and psychosocial data of 15 HIV+ long term survivors (L-S), 15 HIV+ later on deceased patients and 15 HIV–, all of them deriving from the original investigation group from 1985 including 52 patients (30 HIV+, 22 HIV–). We prove the validity of our psychos…