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Review
. 2014 Jun;4(2):106-16.
doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2014.05.006. Epub 2014 Jun 9.

Consensus Statement of HCV Task Force of the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL). Part I: Status Report of HCV Infection in India

Pankaj Puri  1 , Anil C Anand  2 , Vivek A Saraswat  3 , Subrat K Acharya  4 , Radha K Dhiman  5 , Rakesh Aggarwal  3 , Shivram P Singh  6 , Deepak Amarapurkar  7 , Anil Arora  8 , Mohinish Chhabra  9 , Kamal Chetri  10 , Gourdas Choudhuri  11 , Vinod K Dixit  12 , Ajay Duseja  5 , Ajay K Jain  13 , Dharmesh Kapoorz  14 , Premashis Kar  15 , Abraham Koshy  16 , Ashish Kumar  8 , Kaushal Madan  17 , Sri P Misra  18 , Mohan V G Prasad  19 , Aabha Nagral  20 , Amarendra S Puri  21 , R Jeyamani  22 , Sanjiv Saigal  17 , Shiv K Sarin  23 , Samir Shah  24 , P K Sharma  25 , Ajit Sood  26 , Sandeep Thareja  27 , Manav Wadhawan  28
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Consensus Statement of HCV Task Force of the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL). Part I: Status Report of HCV Infection in India

Pankaj Puri et al. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

Globally, around 150 million people are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). India contributes a large proportion of this HCV burden. The prevalence of HCV infection in India is estimated at between 0.5% and 1.5%. It is higher in the northeastern part, tribal populations and Punjab, areas which may represent HCV hotspots, and is lower in western and eastern parts of the country. The predominant modes of HCV transmission in India are blood transfusion and unsafe therapeutic injections. There is a need for large field studies to better understand HCV epidemiology and identify high-prevalence areas, and to identify and spread awareness about the modes of transmission of this infection in an attempt to prevent disease transmission.

Keywords: CH-C, chronic hepatitis C; GRADE, Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; INASL, Indian National Association for Study of the Liver; IV, intravenous; IVDU, intravenous/injecting drug user; chronic hepatitis; epidemiology; hepatitis C virus.

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