Hepatitis C in key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review and meta-analysis
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Summary
Disease burden is high and surveillance, prevention and treatment should target these groups in LAC as well as current HCV infection from three countries, which showed prevalence under 10 % in prison inmates and 1–46 % among drug users.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2015-08-23
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 71
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1172759163
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18843328
Keywords
Medicine, Men who have sex with men, Hepatitis C, Latin Americans, Hepatitis C virus
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