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Although higher HIV viral suppression rates have been reported among people with HIV who participate in Ryan White services, studies have not assessed effects on HCV coinfection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used Philadelphia's routine HIV and hepatitis surveillance data to identify new HIV diagnoses during November 2018\u2013October 2021 in a retrospective cohort analysis. We plotted Kaplan-Meier curves and performed Cox regressions to understand effects of HCV coinfection and receipt of Ryan White support services on time to reach HIV viral suppression, adjusting for linkage to HIV care, retention in HIV care, race and ethnicity, gender, age at time of HIV diagnosis, and injection drug use history.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Kaplan\u2013Meier plots revealed that median time to HIV viral suppression was shorter among persons with HIV monoinfection, compared with HIV and HCV coinfection (80 days vs 235 days; P &amp;lt; .001). When adjusted for covariates, persons with HCV coinfection remained less likely to reach HIV viral suppression than persons without HCV coinfection for each day of follow-up (hazard ratio, 0.53 [95% confidence interval {CI}, .39\u2013.72]). Compared with persons who received no support services, persons who received \u22651 service weekly and persons who received \u22652 services weekly were 60% (95% CI, 27%\u2013101%) and 117% (95% CI, 36%\u2013 223%) more likely to achieve viral suppression, respectively, for each day of follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Addressing social determinants of health through federally sponsored Ryan White services can improve health for persons with HIV monoinfection and HCV coinfection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ofid\/ofag049","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,3]],"date-time":"2026-02-03T12:42:37Z","timestamp":1770122557000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Frequent Participation in Ryan White Services Improves Time to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Viral Suppression Among 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