Hepatitis C in Sub-Saharan Africa: Urgent Need for Attention
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Summary
For regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, this will require a thorough understanding of the regional population-level epidemiology, risk factors, and transmission mechanisms, so that effective treatment and prevention strategies can be introduced.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2014-09-01
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 7
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2019073670
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11525865
Keywords
Medicine, Hepatitis C, Virology, Intensive care medicine
References
- Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection: New estimates of age‐specific antibody to HCV seroprevalence
- Poor performance of hepatitis C antibody tests in hospital patients in Uganda
- High frequency of false-positive hepatitis C virus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in Rakai, Uganda.
- Epidemic history of hepatitis C virus infection in two remote communities in Nigeria, West Africa.
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- Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus: A Battle on New Frontiers.
- Incidence of hepatitis C in Brazil.
- Absence of Active Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Clinics in Zambia and Mozambique
- Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Ghana: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Hepatitis C genotype distribution in patient and blood donor samples in South Africa for the period 2008–2012
- Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infectious Agents in Nigeria: 2012–2014
- “Waiting for DAAs”: A retrospective chart review of patients with untreated hepatitis C in Rwanda
- Prevalence of hepatitis B and C infection in persons living with HIV enrolled in care in Rwanda
- Treatment of hepatitis C in injecting drug users in the Perth metropolitan area
- A Battle on New Frontiers
- Hepatitis C virus seroprevalence among haemodialysis patients, sickle cell patients and blood donors at a tertiary hospital in Yaounde, Cameroon
- Serological and molecular epidemiology flaviviruses in selected provinces of Zambia
- Viral Hepatitis Endemicity and Trends among an Asymptomatic Adult Population in Ho: A 5-Year Retrospective Study at the Ho Municipal Hospital, Ghana
- Développement d’approches PCR et implémentation pour l’amélioration de l’accès au diagnostic moléculaire des maladies infectieuses dans les pays à ressources limitées
- Seroprevalence of acute hepatitis C virus infection among mortuary workers and ambulance drivers in Plateau State, Nigeria
- High Anti-HCV Seroprevalence and Low Performance of ICT Strip in Diagnosing Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Children in Enugu Metropolis
- Hepatitis B, C, and D virus and human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 infections and correlates among men who have sex with men in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Screening a nation for hepatitis C virus elimination: a cross-sectional study on prevalence of hepatitis C and associated risk factors in the Rwandan general population
- The evaluation of point of care testing and dried blood spots to assess diagnostic accuracy of HCV infection as part of Sero-Molecular surveillance in people most-at-risk for hepatitis C virus
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