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  1. Cutaneous anthrax in humans is associated with exposure to infected animals or animal products and has a case fatality rate of up to 20% if untreated. During May to June 2015, an outbreak of cutaneous anthrax ...

    Authors: Priyakanta Nayak, Samir V. Sodha, Kayla F. Laserson, Arun K. Padhi, Basanta K. Swain, Shaikh S. Hossain, Aakash Shrivastava, Pradeep Khasnobis, Srinivas R. Venkatesh, Bikash Patnaik and Kailash C. Dash
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 3):470
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 3

  2. A dengue outbreak in an ecotourism destination spot in Vietnam, from September to November 2013, impacted a floating village of fishermen on the coastal island of Cat Ba. The outbreak raises questions about ho...

    Authors: Thanh Le Viet, Marc Choisy, Juliet E. Bryant, Duoc Vu Trong, Thai Pham Quang, Peter Horby, Hien Nguyen Tran, Huong Tran Thi Kieu, Trung Nguyen Vu, Kinh Nguyen Van, Mai Le Quynh and Heiman FL Wertheim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:940
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. In Ethiopia, undernutrition among women on antiretroviral therapy has been a major challenge to achieve the full impact of intervention. Twenty seven percent and 17% of reproductive age Ethiopian women are chr...

    Authors: Tsegazeab Hailu Hadgu, Walelegn Worku, Desalegn Tetemke and Hailemariam Berhe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:943
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Global health implementing organizations benefit most from health impact estimation models that isolate the individual effects of distributed products and services - a feature not typically found in interventi...

    Authors: Hongmei Yang, Susan Duvall, Amy Ratcliffe, David Jeffries and Warren Stevens
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 2):S3
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  6. Tuberculosis infection accounts for more annual deaths than any other single infectious disease, except the Corona Virus infection. It is a significant global issue and India is one of the most affected countr...

    Authors: Tim Bäckdahl and Megha Sharma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:2141
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  7. In 2010, 18 States of Nigeria reported cholera outbreaks with a total of 41,787 cases including 1,716 deaths (case-fatality rate [CFR]: 4.1%). This exceeded the mean overall CFR of 2.4% reported in Africa from...

    Authors: Mahmood Muazu Dalhat, Aisha Nasiru Isa, Patrick Nguku, Sani-Gwarzo Nasir, Katharina Urban, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Raymond Salanga Dankoli, Peter Nsubuga and Gabriele Poggensee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1167
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. In areas where visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and malaria are co-endemic, co-infections are common. Clinical implications range from potential diagnostic delay to increased disease-related morbidity, as compared ...

    Authors: Erika van den Bogaart, Marieke MZ Berkhout, Ayman BYM Nour, Pètra F Mens, Al-Badawi A Talha, Emily R Adams, Hashim BM Ahmed, Samira H Abdelrahman, Koert Ritmeijer, Bakri YM Nour and Henk DFH Schallig
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:332
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Whooping cough is a communicable disease whose incidence has increased in recent years in some countries with vaccination. Since 1981, in Catalonia (Spain), cases must be reported to the Public Health Departme...

    Authors: Inma Crespo, Núria Soldevila, Pilar Muñoz, Pere Godoy, Gloria Carmona and Angela Domínguez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:268
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Unhealthy environments and food advertisements are major determinants of childhood obesity. Recent regulation has banned unhealthy foods from schools in Mexico. However, currently there is no regulation limiti...

    Authors: Simón Barquera, Lucia Hernández-Barrera, Stephen J. Rothenberg and Enrique Cifuentes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:461
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. To achieve the WHO End TB Strategy targets, it is necessary to detect and treat more people with active TB early. Scale–up of active case finding (ACF) may be one strategy to achieve that goal. Given human res...

    Authors: Luan Nguyen Quang Vo, Rachel Jeanette Forse, Andrew James Codlin, Thanh Nguyen Vu, Giang Truong Le, Giang Chau Do, Vinh Van Truong, Ha Minh Dang, Lan Huu Nguyen, Hoa Binh Nguyen, Nhung Viet Nguyen, Jens Levy, Bertie Squire, Knut Lonnroth and Maxine Caws
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:934
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Malaria is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is prevalent in over 75% of the country’s area making it the leading public health problems in the coun...

    Authors: Frew Tadesse, Andrew W. Fogarty and Wakgari Deressa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  13. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis (TB) are three primary communicable infections have the likely potential to cause severe morbidity in prison settings. The prison has the most fa...

    Authors: Ahmad Wali, Dawood Khan, Nauman Safdar, Zeenat Shawani, Razia Fatima, Aashifa Yaqoob, Aurangzeb Qadir, Sultan Ahmed, Hamayun Rashid, Bashir Ahmed and Shereen Khan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1631
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. More than half of persons living with HIV (PLWH) in the United States are insufficiently engaged in HIV primary care and not taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), mainly African Americans/Blacks and Hispanics. ...

    Authors: Marya Viorst Gwadz, Linda M. Collins, Charles M. Cleland, Noelle R. Leonard, Leo Wilton, Monica Gandhi, R. Scott Braithwaite, David C. Perlman, Alexandra Kutnick and Amanda S. Ritchie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:383
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  15. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has confronted decades of the HIV epidemic with substantial improvements in access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). Now, with improved survival, people living with HIV (PLW...

    Authors: Emily P. Hyle, Bongani M. Mayosi, Keren Middelkoop, Mosepele Mosepele, Emily B. Martey, Rochelle P. Walensky, Linda-Gail Bekker and Virginia A. Triant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:954
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Understanding injection practices is crucial for evidence-based development of intervention initiatives. This study explored the extent of injection use and injection safety practices in primary care hospitals...

    Authors: AK Azad Chowdhury, Tapash Roy, ABM Faroque, Sitesh C Bachar, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Nishat Nasrin, Nahid Akter, Hamidur Rahman Gazi, Abul Kalam Lutful Kabir, Masuma Parvin and Claire Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:779
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. India, China and Russia account for more than 62% of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) globally. Within India, locations like urban metropolitan Mumbai with its burgeoning population and high incidence ...

    Authors: Desiree TB D'souza, Nerges F Mistry, Tina S Vira, Yatin Dholakia, Sven Hoffner, Geoffrey Pasvol, Mark Nicol and Robert J Wilkinson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:211
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Methadone treatment was introduced in Taiwan in 2006 as a harm-reduction program for injection drug users (IDUs), among whom HIV was endemic. We examined the association of HIV serostatus with demographic char...

    Authors: Yung-Feng Yen, Muh-Yong Yen, Ting Lin, Lan-Huei Li, Xiao-Ru Jiang, Pesus Chou and Chung-Yeh Deng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:682
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. The study of the etiology of acute febrile illness (AFI) has historically been designed as a prevalence of pathogens detected from a case series. This strategy has an inherent unrealistic assumption that all p...

    Authors: Pablo Peñataro Yori, Maribel Paredes Olórtegui, Francesca Schiaffino, Josh M. Colston, Tackeshy Pinedo Vasquez, Paul F. Garcia Bardales, Valentino Shapiama Lopez, Loyda Fiorella Zegarra Paredes, Karin Perez, Greisi Curico, Thomas Flynn, Jixian Zhang, Cesar Ramal Asayag, Graciela Meza Sanchez, Hermann Silva Delgado, Martin Casapia Morales…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:674
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  20. Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs at alarmingly high rates towards pregnant women in South Africa. Experiences of emotional, physical, and sexual IPV in pregnancy can adversely impact the health and safet...

    Authors: Amanda P. Miller, Sarah Schoetz Dean, Lara Court, Rufaro Mvududu, Nyiko Mashele, Nafisa J. Wara, Landon Myer, Steven Shoptaw and Dvora L. Joseph Davey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:481
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  21. Despite a global decrease in malaria burden worldwide, malaria remains a major public health concern, especially in Benin children, the most vulnerable group. A better understanding of malaria’s spatial and ag...

    Authors: Barikissou Georgia Damien, Akoeugnigan Idelphonse Sode, Daniel Bocossa, Emmanuel Elanga-Ndille, Badirou Aguemon, Vincent Corbel, Marie-Claire Henry, Romain Lucas Glèlè Kakaï and Franck Remoué
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1754
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  22. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is reportedly growing fast in sub-Saharan Africa. There is however a scarcity of epidemiologic data on DM in Burkina Faso. We carried out a secondary analysis of the fi...

    Authors: Tieba Millogo, Brice W. Bicaba, Joseph Kouesyandé Soubeiga, Estelle Dabiré, Isaie Médah and Séni Kouanda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:350
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Gender inequity and the subsequent health impacts disproportionately affect communities in the Global South. However, most gender equity measures, such as Pulerwitz’ (2000) Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRP...

    Authors: Kalysha Closson, Campion Zharima, Michelle Kuchena, Janan J. Dietrich, Anne Gadermann, Gina Ogilvie, Mags Beksinska and Angela Kaida
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1368
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  24. Local malaria transmission has decreased rapidly since the National Malaria Elimination Action Plan was launched in China in 2010. However, imported malaria cases from Africa and Southeast Asia still occur in ...

    Authors: Guisheng Ding, Guoding Zhu, Caiqun Cao, Ping Miao, Yuanyuan Cao, Weiming Wang, Yaping Gu, Sui Xu, Shengqiang Wang, Huayun Zhou and Jun Cao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:489
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The Kingdom of Morocco approved BBIBP-CorV (Sinopharm) COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on 22 January 2021 in a two-dose, three-to-four-week interval schedule. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to de...

    Authors: Yaowen Zhang, Jihane Belayachi, Yunkai Yang, Qiang Fu, Lance Rodewald, Hongling Li, Bing Yan, Ying Wang, Yanna Shen, Qian Yang, Weiyun Mu, Rong Tang, Chen Su, Tianfang Xu, Majdouline Obtel, Abdelkader Mhayi…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1584
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  26. Globally in 2015 about 214 million malaria cases and 438,000 deaths were reported with 75% were from Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is unstable, and outbreaks are considered public health...

    Authors: Afewerki Tesfahunegn, Gebretsadik Berhe and Equbay Gebregziabher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:484
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Community Based Surveillance Volunteers (CBSVs) have been instrumental in the management of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) but a concern that their services in scale up programmes may be affected due to hi...

    Authors: Lucy Owusu, Ruth Dede Tuwor, Nancy Ackam, Aloysius Loglo, Bernadette Agbavor, Abigail Agbanyo, Olivia Dornu, Philemon Boasiako Antwi, Michael Ntiamoah Oppong, Jonathan Kofi Adjei, Venus Frimpong, Mohammed Kabiru Abass, Jacob Novignon, Kingsley Asiedu, Dennis Odai Laryea, Yaw Ampem Amoako…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1086
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  28. Large-scale outbreaks of scrub typhus combined with its emergence in new areas as a vector-borne rickettsiosis highlight the ongoing neglect of this disease. This study aims to explore the long-term changes an...

    Authors: Jiaojiao Qian, Yifan Wu, Changqiang Zhu, Qiong Chen, Hongliang Chu, Licheng Liu, Chongcai Wang, Yizhe Luo, Na Yue, Wenhao Li, Xiaohong Yang, Jing Yi, Fuqiang Ye, Ji He, Yong Qi, Fei Lu…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:538
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. The 2010 Global Burden of Disease estimates show that 57% of all TB deaths globally occurred among adults older than 50 years of age. Few studies document the TB burden among older adults in Southern Africa. W...

    Authors: Jenna Coffman, Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Ben J. Marais, Nathan Kapata, Alimuddin Zumla and Joel Negin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:804
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Rapid antigen-detection tests for SARS-CoV-2 self-testing represent a useful tool for pandemic control and expanding access to community-level case screening. COVID-19 self-tests have been extensively used in ...

    Authors: Elena Marbán-Castro, Vladimer Getia, Maia Alkhazashvili, Maia Japaridze, Ia Jikia, Berra Erkosar, Paula Del Rey-Puech, Guillermo Z. Martínez-Pérez, Paata Imnadze, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Olga Denisiuk, Elena Ivanova Reipold and Sonjelle Shilton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:511
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  31. To achieve the goal of measles eradication, all WHO member countries should continuously monitor the status of measles elimination. This work aims to characterize measles outbreaks in Iran from 2014 to 2016 an...

    Authors: Naser Piri, Manoochehr Karami, Leili Tapak, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei and Younes Mohammadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:687
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Oral cancer is the 2nd most common cause of death due to cancer in the south-western coastal region of Taiwan; the standardized mortality of oral cancer is higher than elsewhere in the world. According to the evi...

    Authors: Su-Er Guo, Tung-Jung Huang, Jui-Chu Huang, Ming-Shyan Lin, Rei-Mei Hong, Chia-Hao Chang and Mei-Yen Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:257
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  33. Lassa fever (LF) is an epidemic-prone zoonotic disease prevalent in Nigeria and Ebonyi State is a high burden area in Nigeria. Low risk perceptions have been reported to prevent appropriate preventive behaviou...

    Authors: Ifeoma Sophia Usuwa, Christian Obasi Akpa, Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo, MaryJoy Umoke, Chukwuemeka Steve Oguanuo, Abdulhakeem Abayomi Olorukooba, Eniola Bamgboye and Muhammad Shakir Balogun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:217
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  34. During 2020 and immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sudan was experiencing multiple emergencies including violence, seasonal flooding, and vector-borne disease outbreaks. After more than ten years sinc...

    Authors: Mohammed Taufiq Mashal, Dalya Eltayeb, Ariel Higgins-Steele, Ismael Suleiman El Sheikh, Ni’ma Saeed Abid, Hemant Shukla, Leonard Machado and Hamid Jafari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:235
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  35. Globally, sexual violence is prevalent, particularly for adolescent women. This cluster-randomized controlled implementation trial examines empowerment self-defense (ESD) for sexual assault risk reduction amon...

    Authors: Michele R. Decker, Shannon N. Wood, Esther Ndinda, Gayane Yenokyan, Jacob Sinclair, Nankali Maksud, Brendan Ross, Benjamin Omondi and Martin Ndirangu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1341
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. The incidence of TB in Michigan was 1.5 per 100,000 people in 2012, roughly half the U.S. incidence. Despite successes in TB control, disparities in TB still exist in Michigan, particularly by race, age, and n...

    Authors: Grace A. Noppert, Mark L. Wilson, Philippa Clarke, Wen Ye, Peter Davidson and Zhenhua Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:538
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Zoonotic sleeping sickness, or HAT (Human African Trypanosomiasis), caused by infection with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is an under-reported and neglected tropical disease. Previous assessments of the diseas...

    Authors: Eric M Fèvre, Martin Odiit, Paul G Coleman, Mark EJ Woolhouse and Susan C Welburn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:96
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. In western Kenya, malaria remains one of the major health problems and its control remains an important public health measure. Malaria control is by either use of drugs to treat patients infected with malaria ...

    Authors: Susan S Imbahale, Andrew Githeko, Wolfgang R Mukabana and Willem Takken
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:362
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Dengue fever is a vector-borne disease of global public health concern, with an increasing number of cases and a widening area of endemicity in recent years. Meteorological factors influence dengue transmissio...

    Authors: Masumi Sugeno, Erin C. Kawazu, Hyun Kim, Virasack Banouvong, Nazife Pehlivan, Daniel Gilfillan, Ho Kim and Yoonhee Kim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2348
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  40. HIV prevention remains a global priority, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Our research team previously developed an evidence-based peer group program for HIV prevention called Mzake ndi Mzake (Friend to Friend)...

    Authors: Kathleen F. Norr, Chimwemwe K. Banda, Cecilia Chang, Shruthi Krishna, Lily C. Kumbani, Li Liu, Linda L. McCreary and Crystal L. Patil
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1483
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  41. People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) due to sharing injection paraphernalia and unprotected sex. To generate seroprevalence data on HIV a...

    Authors: Benjamin Wenz, Stine Nielsen, Martyna Gassowski, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Wei Cai, R. Stefan Ross, Claus-Thomas Bock, Boris-Alexander Ratsch, Claudia Kücherer, Norbert Bannert, Viviane Bremer, Osamah Hamouda, Ulrich Marcus and Ruth Zimmermann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:927
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Leptospirosis is still endemic in Malaysia and has been prevalent in Selangor where cases have been underreported. Primarily, this was due to lack of awareness in the urban community in this region. This study...

    Authors: Nurul Munirah Abdullah, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Wan Mohammad, Mohd Nazri Shafei, Surianti Sukeri, Zawaha Idris, Wan Nor Arifin, Noramira Nozmi, Siti Nor Sakinah Saudi, Suhailah Samsudin, Abdul-Wahab Zainudin, Rukman Awang Hamat, Rosni Ibrahim, Siti Norbaya Masri, Suhainizam Muhammad Saliluddin, Aziah Daud, Malina Osman…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:628
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Patients under haemodialysis are considered at high risk to acquire hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Since few data are reported from Brazil, our aim was to assess the frequency and risk factors for HBV infe...

    Authors: Flair J Carrilho, Cleusa R Moraes, João RR Pinho, Isabel MVGC Mello, Dennis A Bertolini, Marcílio F Lemos, Regina C Moreira, Leda C Bassit, Rita A Cardoso, Gabriela Ribeiro-dos-Santos and Luiz C Da Silva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2004 4:13
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  44. In the Latin America and Caribbean region over 210 million people live below the poverty line. These impoverished and marginalized populations are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases. These d...

    Authors: John C Holveck, John P Ehrenberg, Steven K Ault, Rocio Rojas, Javier Vasquez, Maria Teresa Cerqueira, Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, Miguel A Genovese and Mirta Roses Periago
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2007 7:6
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  45. Due to low vaccine coverage, Japan has not only experienced outbreaks of measles but has also been exporting it overseas. This study aims to survey measles vaccine coverage and the factors uncompleted vaccinat...

    Authors: Takayo Matsumura, Takeo Nakayama, Shigeru Okamoto and Hideko Ito
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2005 5:59
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  46. In Mozambique, HIV infection disproportionately affects young adults, particularly women. Despite awareness and knowledge of HIV transmission, many university students have not received HIV testing and continu...

    Authors: Anneka Hooft, Sarah Pfeil, Josina Mussengue, Eunice Jetha, Feng He, Sonia Jain, Sandra Manuel, Patrício V. Langa and Radhika Sundararajan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1891
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health problem, despite recent achievements in reducing incidence and mortality rates. In Brazil, these achievements were above the worldwide average, but marked by large reg...

    Authors: Guy Harling, Antonio S. Lima Neto, Geziel S. Sousa, Marcia M. T. Machado and Marcia C. Castro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:508
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus (CA-Sa) skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are historically associated with densely populated urban areas experiencing high poverty rates, intravenous drug use, and h...

    Authors: Brittany L. Morgan Bustamante, Laura Fejerman, Larissa May and Beatriz Martínez-López
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:123
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Guangdong province attracted more than 31 million migrants in 2010. But few studies were performed to estimate the complete and age-appropriate immunization coverage and determine risk factors of migrant child...

    Authors: Ke Han, Huizhen Zheng, Zhixiong Huang, Quan Qiu, Hong Zeng, Banghua Chen and Jianxiong Xu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:203
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Pakistan has one of the highest burdens of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection globally. To achieve the World Health Organization’s goals for HCV elimination, there is a need for substantial scale-up in testing,...

    Authors: Ambreen Arif, Aliya Hasnain, Auj Chaudhry, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Nabeel Shafqat, Abeer Altaf, Noor Saba, Polychronis Kemos, M. Azim Ansari, Eleanor Barnes, Chris Metcalfe, Peter Vickerman, Huma Qureshi, Saeed Hamid, Asad Ali Choudhry, Saad Khalid Niaz…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2529
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:
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