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

Puri, Pankaj ; Anand, Anil C. ; Saraswat, Vivek A. ; Acharya, Subrat K. ; Dhiman, Radha K. ; Aggarwal, Rakesh ; Singh, Shivram P. ; Amarapurkar, Deepak ; Arora, Anil ; Chhabra, Mohinish ; Chetri, Kamal ; Choudhuri, Gourdas ; Dixit, Vinod K. ; Duseja, Ajay ; Jain, Ajay K. ; Kapoorz, Dharmesh ; Kar, Premashis ; Koshy, Abraham ; Kumar, Ashish ; Madan, Kaushal ; Misra, Sri P. ; Prasad, Mohan V.G. ; Nagral, Aabha ; Puri, Amarendra S. ; Jeyamani, R. ; Saigal, Sanjiv ; Sarin, Shiv K. ; Shah, Samir ; Sharma, P.K. ; Sood, Ajit ; Thareja, Sandeep ; Wadhawan, Manav (2014) 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 Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 4 (2). pp. 106-116. ISSN 09736883

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2014.05.006

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2014.05.006

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.

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Keywords:	hepatitis C virus, chronic hepatitis, epidemiology
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