Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of liver disease worldwide and a potential cause of
substantial morbidity and mortality in the future. The complexity and uncertainty related to …

Background: The hepatitis C pandemic has been systematically studied and characterized
in North America and Europe, but this important public health problem has not received …

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is endemic in Pakistan and its burden is expected to increase in
coming decades owing mainly to widespread use of unsafe medical procedures. The …

ABSTRACT Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection appears to be endemic in most parts of the
world, with an estimated overall prevalence of 3%. However, there is considerable …

Unsafe injections are suspected to occur routinely in developing countries. We carried out a
literature review to quantify the prevalence of unsafe injections and to assess the disease …

BACKGROUND: Pakistan carries one of the world's highest burdens of chronic hepatitis and
mortality due to liver failure and hepatocellular carcinomas. However, national level …

As part of the 2000 Global Burden of Disease study, we quantified the death and disability
from injection-associated infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and …

To characterize hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemiology in Pakistan and estimate the pooled
mean HCV antibody prevalence in different risk populations, we systematically reviewed all …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …